To T. C. Eyton 22 [July 1857]1
Down Bromley Kent
22d
Dear Eyton
I have been rather amiss in not before sending you the W. African Dog-skin; but it shall be sent off this very night.— I was assured by Dr. Daniell that it was a very characteristic specimen of the pure native dog of Sierra Leone &c.2
Dear Eyton | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
The date is conjectured by the relationship to the letter to T. C. Eyton, 9 June [1857], in which CD offered to send Eyton the skin of a domestic dog of West Africa. Since CD states that he will send the skin ‘this very night’, the letter must have been written on a Wednesday, before the weekly carrier departed for London at 2 AM on Thursday morning. Wednesday, 22 July, is the most probable date.
William Freeman Daniell provided CD with several specimens of domestic animals and fowls from West Africa (see letter to T. C. Eyton, 5 October [1856]).
Summary
Sends TCE West African dog’s skin.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2126
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Campbell Eyton
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.148)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2126,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2126.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6
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