From C. L. Sutherland 12 September 1872
West Market Place | Cirencester.
12th. September 72.
Dear Mr. Darwin.
According to promise I sent for a copy of my friend Ayraults book on Mule Breeding in the Poitou.1 By careful selection a most extraordinary—in fact an almost abnormal race of Asses has been produced, which are kept solely for breeding Mules.
I shall be shortly writing to Ayrault & I know he will be delighted to hear that you are the recipient of one of his books, a few of which he gave me for distribution when I was at Niort in May last.2
I hope you are as well as when I had the pleasure of seeing you in June last & with my compliments to Mrs. Darwin3 | I remain | Yours very truly | Charles L Sutherland
I have thought that possibly the enclosed photograph of our mutual friend Tegetmeier & myself examining a pigeon Voyageur Belge, might amuse you.4
Footnotes
Bibliography
Ayrault, Eugène. 1867. De l’industrie mulassière en Poitou. Niort: L. Clouzot.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.
Richardson, Edmund William. 1916. A veteran naturalist; being the life and work of W. B. Tegetmeier. London: Witherby & Co.
Summary
Sends CD a book on mule breeding in Poitou [Eugène Ayrault, De l’industrie mulassière en Poitou (1867)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8518
- From
- Charles Leslie Sutherland
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Cirencester
- Source of text
- DAR 177: 320
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8518,” accessed on 8 June 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8518.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
