To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 1 January [1856]1
Down Bromley Kent
Jan 1st
My dear Sir
I write one line to thank you very sincerely for the card for the Philo-peristeron;2 which I will certainly attend if I possibly can: if I do not come, I will send the cranium per post;3 but I hope that I shall be able.— I am sorry to hear that you have been harassed in what seems a most just cause.
Your’s sincerely | C. Darwin
Very many & sincere thanks for keeping me in mind about Pigeons.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Richardson, Edmund William. 1916. A veteran naturalist; being the life and work of W. B. Tegetmeier. London: Witherby & Co.
Secord, James Andrew. 1981. Nature’s fancy: Charles Darwin and the breeding of pigeons. Isis 72: 162–86.
Summary
Will attend the Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club] if he possibly can.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1813
- 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
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1813,” accessed on 30 May 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1813.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6
