To W. B. Tegetmeier 5 March [1859]1
Down Bromley Kent
March 5th
My dear Sir
The fowls arrived quite hearty yesterday & are very pretty.— I am now sufficiently stocked, thanks to your great kindness. diag Former Fowls.— 13
Hamburgh 10.6
Basket 1
—–
£ 1.4.6ramme which I now enclose.—2
You shall hear result of experiment.—3
Mr K. Bruce told me he would join the Bee Socy.—4 & I will remind him whenever I see him.
With my renewed thanks, pray believe me | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
When you see Mr Weir do not forget to ask about wing-bars &c in silver Barbs.—5
Footnotes
Bibliography
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Sends payment for poultry received.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2423
- 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 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2423,” accessed on 27 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2423.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7