To W. B. Tegetmeier 8 August [1875]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Aug 8th
My dear Sir
You have often helped me, & can you do so again? I have said in my Var: under Dom: (of which I am correcting a new Edit.) that Eclipse has never been beaten in speed. A stranger writes to me that this an error.2 Now can you find out from the great authorities of the Field, whether it is known that any horse has been swifter & if so his name; or even whether Racing men confidently believe that any horse has ever been swifter than Eclipse.
Will you kindly do what you can for me.—
My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
P.S | I daresay I owe to you a very favourable & good review in the Field of my Insectivorous Plants.—3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Variation 2d ed.: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1875.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Is preparing new edition of Variation and has a query on speed of racehorses.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10111
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Bernhard Tegetmeier
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10111,” accessed on 10 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10111.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
