skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Search: contains "1856 Tegetmeier, W. B."

Darwin Correspondence Project
Search:
1856 and Tegetmeier and W and B in keywords disabled_by_default
Fox, W. D. in correspondent disabled_by_default
3 Items
Sorted by:  
Page: 1

To W. D. Fox   8 [June 1856]

Summary

The responses to his queries on domestic variations are coming in from all over; believes he will make an interesting collection. At present concerned with rabbits and ducks.

Has told Lyell of his views on species and CL urges CD to publish a preliminary essay. Has begun to work on it, with fear and trembling at its inadequacies.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  8 [June 1856]
Classmark:  University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-10)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1895

Matches: 1 hit

  • … of Persia. See letter to W.  B. Tegetmeier, 29 November [1856] . Perhaps from S.  Erhardt, …

To W. D. Fox   3 January [1856]

Summary

Thanks WDF for his help and reports on progress in "the Cock and Hen line of business". Has written to every quarter of the world for skins of poultry and pigeons.

As for seeds, Hooker and Bentham obstinately refuse to believe they can live even a few years in the ground.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  3 Jan [1856]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 86)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1815

Matches: 1 hit

  • … and 227, and letter to W.  B. Tegetmeier, 14 January [1856] ). The elder John Baily , of …

To W. D. Fox   15 March [1856]

Summary

Believes WDF’s case of mongrel Scotch deerhound is very valuable for him.

Mentions his work on pigeons and chickens.

Fears sometimes he will break down: "My subject gets bigger and bigger".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  15 Mar [1856]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 97)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1843

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Peirce Brent (see letter to W.  B. Tegetmeier, 20 March [1856] ). The differences in the …
Document type
letter (3)
Author
Addressee
Correspondent
Date
1856 (3)