To W. B. Tegetmeier 21 December [1864]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Dec 21
My dear Sir
I am much obliged for the Observer. I think your article is very well done & very interesting.2 I will send you a copy, as soon as I get one, of a paper which I have lately written, which it is possible, tho’ not probable, you might like to work up into a popular article3
My health still keeps very weak, but I am able to do a little work on “Variation under Domestication”. The whole has been written once over & I am now going thro’ it again.4 I hope in 6 or 8 weeks to come to “Fowls” when I shall want my M.S. from you with any marginal corrections but I do not intend to add much on account of my weakness.5
When I come to this Chapter I shall have some of your skulls drawn & they shall then be returned to you. I assure you that I am sincerely sorry to have kept them so long.6 I am glad to hear that you will publish on your crossing experiments, but I am not surprized to hear that there has been no sterility.7
Believe me my dear Sir | yours sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Tegetmeier, William Bernhard. 1864. Mimetic analogy. Intellectual Observer 6: 307–13.
‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria’: On the sexual relations of the three forms of Lythrum salicaria. By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 8 (1865): 169–96. [Collected papers 2: 106–31.]
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
CD working on Variation; he will soon want corrected fowl MS [Variation, ch. 7].
WBT’s breeding experiments produced no sterility.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4720
- 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
- LS 4pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4720,” accessed on 27 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4720.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12