To W. B. Tegetmeier 15 July [1870]1
Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.
July 15th
My dear Sir
It is long since I have heard from you, & I am much obliged for your letter.— It is good news that you are going to bring out a new edit. of your Poultry Book & you are quite at liberty to use all my materials.2 Thanks for curious case of the Wild-Duck variation: I have heard of other instances of a tendency to vary in one out of a large litter or family.—3
I have too many things in hand at present to profit by your offer of the loan of the American Poultry Book.—4
Pray keep firm to your idea of working out the subject of analogous variation with Pigeons; I really think you might thus make a novel & valuable contribution to science.— I can, however, quite understand how much your time must be occupied with the never ending, always beginning Editorial cares.—5
I keep much as usual & crawl on with my work.—
Believe me | my dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
WBT may use any of CD’s material for the new edition of his poultry book. Hopes WBT will keep firmly to his idea of working out pigeon variation.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7275
- 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 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7275,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7275.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
