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To W. B. Tegetmeier   29 March 1881

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

March 29th 1881

My dear Sir

I have received your fine work with its interesting illustrations, which I shall be glad to read.— I enclose a cheque.–1

I truly hope that your health keeps fairly good & that you are prosperous in all ways.—

My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

1
CD’s copy of The natural history of the cranes (Blyth 1881) is in the Darwin Library–CUL; Tegetmeier had enlarged Edward Blyth’s original work, which had appeared in the Field in 1873 ([Blyth] 1873). CD had agreed to subscribe to the work in 1879 (Correspondence vol. 27, letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 17 March 1879, and letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 20 March 1879). On 29 March 1881, CD recorded a payment of £1 1s. under the heading ‘Tegetmeier’ in his Account books–banking account (Down House MS)).

Bibliography

[Blyth, Edward.] 1873. The cranes. Field 40: 631–2; 41: 7, 61.

Blyth, Edward. 1881. The natural history of the cranes. A monograph by the late Edward Blyth, C.M.Z.S. Greatly enlarged, and reprinted, with numerous illustrations, by W. B. Tegetmeier. London: published for the author by H. Cox and R. H. Porter.

Summary

Has received WBT’s fine work [Edward Blyth, The natural history of the cranes, enlarged and reprinted by WBT (1881)].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13100
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 1p

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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13100,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13100.xml

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