My dear Sir

Many thanks for the Runt received this morning.¹

I have had some live fowls sent me from some way in interior of Sierra Leone, so that they are genuine Africans.—² Would you like a Cockrel to look at & then kill if it so pleases you. I could send it to Carstang’s carriage free.³ But I must tell you that M^r. Brent⁴ called here the other day & looked at them & says they have no marked character, having a good deal of the Game in them, with perhaps a dash of the Malay, especially a Hen, which I shall keep for skeleton. I doubt whether the Cock is worth your having, but it is most entirely at your service.—

By the way I sh^d. be very glad of a Malay Cock, if you can ever get one dead for me.—

With many thanks | Your’s very sincerely | C. Darwin