From Edward Blyth 31 August 1868
7 Princess Terrace, | Regent’s Pk,
8/31/68—
My dear Sir,
I am just off to spent a week in Wilts, within easy walk to Stonehenge, & where my address will be Brigmerston House, near Amesbury.1 Meanwhile I was about to send you some very interesting remarks on elephants, published in the Proc. As. Soc. B., which I received last week from Calcutta.2 But I lent them to Bartlett on Saturday, & this morning he cannot put his hand on them so I have asked him to forward them to you by post.3 I hear there is yet a probability of our getting the African 2-horn rhinoceros in the Z.G. It was said that the King of Italy had purchased it, partly by exchange for a pair of giraffes and the rest in cash, but he wishes to throw the whole trouble and expence & risk of transit of both the rhinoceros & the giraffes on the vendor, & so the negociation was broken off, as this would make rather too large a hole in the £1000.4
If you feel well enough, you should take an early opportunity to see the hoolock Gibbon in the Z.G., which is best seen in the morning, when Bartlett would turn it loose that you might see its actions among the trees.5
Yours very truly | E Blyth
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Johnstone, J. 1868. Notes on elephants. [Read 6 May 1868.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1868): 127–9.
Summary
EB is moving to Wiltshire for a week.
Tells CD of animals acquired, or about to be acquired, by the Zoological Garden.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6336
- From
- Edward Blyth
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Princess Terrace, 7
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 215
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6336,” accessed on 3 June 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6336.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16