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From W. B. Tegetmeier   22 January [1866]

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Discusses pigeon and poultry woodcuts [for Variation].

WBT’s poultry book is at last in the hands of a solvent publisher [The poultry book (1867)].

Author:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Jan [1866]
Classmark:  DAR 178: 71
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4983

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  • … Johnson 1856–7 for details of work by others than Tegetmeier ( ibid. , letter to W.  B.   …
  • … Johnson 1856–7 (see Correspondence vol.  13, letter from W.  B.  Tegetmeier, [29 March – …
  • 1856 and 1857, a revised edition, edited by Tegetmeier, was published in parts by William S.  Orr and Co. ( Correspondence vol.  6, letter to W.  B.   …

From W. B. Tegetmeier   4 May [1861]

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Sends some replies to CD’s queries and data on pigeon flights between Bordeaux and Verviers.

Author:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 May [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 205.2: 256
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3139

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  • … to W.  D. Fox, 15 March [1856] , and to W.  B.  Tegetmeier, 24 June [1856], and letter …
  • 1856 , n.  10. See also Origin , pp.  445–6, and Variation 1: 178, 248–50. Bernard Peirce Brent was a frequent contributor to both the Cottage Gardener and the Field on various subjects pertaining to domesticated birds and animals. Tegetmeier’s paper on Antwerp carrier pigeons did not appear in the Natural History Review , of which Thomas Henry Huxley was chief editor. See letters to W.  B.   …

From W. B. Tegetmeier   [after 4 August 1866]

Summary

Alterations to the woodcuts of poultry for Variation.

Author:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 4 Aug 1866]
Classmark:  DAR 178: 74
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5180

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  • 1856 ). Tegetmeier had asked CD to change the references in Variation from an earlier and incomplete edition of The poultry book to his own edition ( Tegetmeier 1867 ). See letter from W.  B.   …

From W. B. Tegetmeier   [29 March – 7 April 1865]

Summary

WBT’s eye is getting on very well.

Enclosure comments on a note to folio 1 [of CD’s MS on variation], WBT thinks his works not worth citing: his edition of the Poultry book was never completed and Profitable poultry is out of print.

Author:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [29 Mar – 7 Apr 1865]
Classmark:  DAR 178: 62, 66
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4803

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  • W.  B.  Tegetmeier, 13 March 1865 ). CD congratulated Tegetmeier on the improvement in his eye in his letter of [7 April 1865] . The enclosure to this letter may be one of the slips referred to. Tegetmeier refers to a note on the first folio of CD’s manuscript chapter on fowls. The note contained CD’s acknowledgment of Tegetmeier’s assistance (see Variation 1: 225, n.  1). Tegetmeier refers to Wingfield and Johnson 1856– …
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