From W. B. Tegetmeier [28 February – 5 March 1865]1
Muswell Hill. N
My dear Sir.
I was much grieved at receiving a letter from you not in your own hand writing—although the postscript was more assuring than the letter itself.—2 I will carefully go over your MSS. and make any observations that occur to me either in the margin in pencil or on slips of paper—3
Thanks for your kind wishes I am getting on fairly, being very busy with new and tolerably profitable work,4 but I have had the misfortune to cut completely across and through the cornea of my right eye—and I have as yet only partially recovered the sight, the eye being very intolerant of light—
I send you spangled feathers of crested birds—and pencilled feathers of the genuine dutch breed
Our North country genuine spangled fowls, have larger and better spangles, of which I will send you samples soon—
There are no spangled game now bred—nor am I aware of any well established of that particular variety existing—5
I am now editing the Poultry and some other departments of the Field, and should you feel disposed to use the paper in any way as a means of eliciting information—We (for in this case I may safely use the editorial pronoun as I speak for every one connected with the paper) should feel much pleased if we could in any manner assist you.6
I have seen no account of your paper on Tendrils7 I should much like to read it if it is published8
If you could give me all next week for the reading of the MS. I should be glad as my accident caused my work to accumulate to a rather overwhelming extent
Trusting to hear that your health is improving | Believe me Very sincerely Yours etc | W B Tegetmeier
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
‘Climbing plants’: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1867): 1–118.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
General index to the Journal of the Linnean Society: General index to the first twenty volumes of the Journal (Botany), and the botanical portion of the Proceedings, November 1838 to June 1886, of the Linnean Society. London: Linnean Society of London. 1888.
Newspaper press directory: The newspaper press directory and advertiser’s guide. The newspaper press directory … A directory of the class papers and periodicals. London: C. Michell. 1856–1900.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Encloses some poultry feathers.
Will read over and return CD’s MS on fowls. Has been delayed by an eye injury.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4787
- From
- William Bernhard Tegetmeier
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Muswell Hill
- Source of text
- DAR 178: 64
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4787,” accessed on 17 August 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4787.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13