To T. C. Eyton 3 December [1855]
Down Bromley Kent
Dec. 3d.
Dear Eyton
Very many thanks for the information which will be of the greatest use to me.— I am well in my subject & have got several Pigeons already in water & very many alive & flourishing, & I mean to try to get Domestic Pigeons from all parts of the world.—1
I am delighted to hear that you are at dogs;2 it will be splendid for my work individually, & I am sure most desirable for Science.
I have somewhere, I am almost certain, the head of a Chinese Dog:3 would you like to have this? if so (always supposing that I can find it) shall I send it you direct, or have it left anywhere in London.—
I have alive a German Spitz Dog,4 very pure bred; if it shd. die, shd. I send you the carcase? but as it is young, probably it will live long.—
With many thanks | Yours most truly | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Notebooks: Charles Darwin’s notebooks, 1836–1844. Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. Transcribed and edited by Paul H. Barrett et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the British Museum (Natural History). 1987.
Summary
Now has several pigeons, and intends to get pigeons from all parts of the world.
Glad TCE is working at dogs. Would TCE like head of Chinese dog?
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1789
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Campbell Eyton
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.116)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1789,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1789.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5
