To W. B. Tegetmeier 25 [June 1857]
Summary
Needs only one nearly-hatched chick.
Has all published numbers of Poultry book [1856–7].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 25 [June 1857] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2111 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 23 June [1857] . Tegetmeier ed. 1856–7. See letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 18 May [1857] . …
To W. B. Tegetmeier [19 July 1857]
Summary
Has acquired some runts. Thanks WBT for information. Lists pigeons he is sending.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | [19 July 1857] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2115 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … breeder of fancy pigeons. Tegetmeier ed. 1856–7. See letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 25 [June …
- … time (see letters to W. B. Tegetmeier, 21 September [1856] , 6 February [1857] , and [18 …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 29 September [1857]
Summary
Will collect no more pigeons. Is awaiting Burmese fowls’ skins coming via Berlin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 29 Sept [1857] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2146 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … specimens ( letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 21 September [1856] ). CD refers to the Himalayan …
- … W. B. Tegetmeier, 21 November [1857] . See letter to John Thompson ? , 26 November [1856]. …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 18 May [1857]
Summary
Lists pigeons and poultry he is forwarding to WBT.
Wants details of WBT’s Poultry book [1856–7]
and is anxious to purchase his long-winged runt.
Thanks him for help and information on fowl crosses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 18 May [1857] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2093 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Gulliver (see letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 21 September [1856] ). Tegetmeier ed. 1856–7 …
- … his booksellers in the spring of 1856 (see letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 25 April [1856] ). …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 12 [May 1857]
Summary
Accepts a dozen eggs of rumpless Polands. Having so many enables him to see whether the breed "comes true".
Asks what colour turbits have dark tails – "it is just the class of facts which interest me".
Do fowls when crossed throw odd and unexpected colours like pigeons?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 12 [May 1857] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2090 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … true. CD had sent Tegetmeier a pair of Scanderoons in August 1856 (see letter to W. B. …
- … with down’. Tegetmeier ed. 1856–7, issued in parts. Dixon 1848 . See letter to W. B. …
- … Tegetmeier, 30 August [1856] ). According to Eaton 1852 , it was not easy to tell Scanderoon cocks from hens: ‘in this point the best and oldest Fanciers have been sometimes deceived’. See letter to W. B. …
To Bernard Peirce Brent 7 February [1857]
Summary
Sympathises with Brent’s legal difficulties. Declines offer of a cock silk fowl, but accepts offer of a German old fashioned pouter pigeon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bernard Peirce Brent |
| Date: | 7 Feb [1857] |
| Classmark: | Richard Brent (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2048F |
Matches: 3 hits
- … vol. 6, letter to W. D. Fox, 3 January [1856] , and letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 20 …
- … W. B. Tegetmeier, 11 February [1857] ). CD had begun writing his species book, or what he sometimes called his ‘Book on Variation’, in 1856, …
- … 1856] ). See Variation 1: 270 for CD’s interest in the flight of silk fowls. Brent was a regular contributor to the Cottage Gardener. For CD’s request to William Bernhard Tegetmeier for German pouter pigeons, see Correspondence vol. 6, letter to W. B. …
From Edward Hewitt 18 December 1857
Summary
Hybrid varieties of pheasant and common fowl. Reply to CD queries.
| Author: | Edward Hewitt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Dec 1857 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 196 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1614 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1856–7): 384–6). CD probably wrote to Hewitt soon after learning from William Bernhard Tegetmeier that Hewitt had made a number of crosses between pheasants and fowl (see letter to W. B. …
To Alfred Russel Wallace 1 May 1857
Summary
Reports long preparation of work on how species and varieties differ. Agreement with Wallace’s conclusions as reported in Annals and Magazine of Natural History and in his letter to CD of 10 0ct [1856]. On distinction between domestic varieties and those in "a state of nature".
On mating of jaguars and leopards, the breeding of poultry, pigeons, etc.
Requests help for his experimenting on means of distribution of organic beings on oceanic islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 1 May 1857 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2086 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1856 has not been found. None of their earlier correspondence has been preserved, but see letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, …
- … 1856 to request specimens of domestic and wild fowl from Malaysia (see Correspondence vol. 5, CD memorandum, [December 1855]). James Brooke , raja of Saráwak, Borneo (see letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, …
To J. D. Hooker 22 August [1857]
Summary
Tabulation of varieties goes on; very important as it shows the branching of forms. Mentions his principle of divergence.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 Aug [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 208 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2134 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … had reached CD in November 1856 ( letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 3 November [1856] ). A …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 27 July [1857]
Summary
Arrangements for delivery of pigeons and poultry to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 27 July [1857] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2128 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … W. B. Tegetmeier, [19 July 1857] ). CD described the skull of a Ghoondook specimen in Variation 1: 265. The Ghoondooks are a sub-breed of the crested Polish fowls originally bred in Turkey. The Nag’s Head was an inn in south London where parcels were collected every Thursday by the Down carrier, George Snow . Tegetmeier had moved from Wood Green to Muswell Hill in 1856 ( …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Hewitt, Edward | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (6) |
| Brent, B. P. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (6) |
| Brent, B. P. | (1) |
| Hewitt, Edward | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
