To W. B. Tegetmeier 4 February [1859]1
Down Bromley Kent
Feb. 4th
My dear Sir
I have been very remiss in not having thanked you for the two white Fowls (Cochin & black-skinned) received some time since.
My health has been very bad lately & I am going tomorrow for hydropathy to “Moor Park, Farnham, Surrey”. for a fortnight.—2
If I could get one or two more white Breeds it would suffice, viz a white Sussex or Dorking & silver Pencilled Hamburgh.— If you stumble on these birds during next fortnight & have to communicate with me, if you write to Mr Snow Carrier at Nag’s Head;3 please put on top of outside of letter “to be opened by anyone who comes”, as last time I had to send the next day specially to London for the Fowls If you write here please direct to my housekeeper “Mrs Evans at C. Darwin Esqe &c &c” for we shall be all away & my Butler.—4
How kind you have been in taking so much trouble for me; & how unreason-able does this note seem.—
Pray believe me | My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Wants white breeds of poultry.
Poor health necessitates a trip to Moor Park, Farnham.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2407
- 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 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2407,” accessed on 29 March 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2407.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7
