To F. B. Zincke 26 May [1876]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. [Hopedene, Surrey.]
May 26th
Dear Sir
I am very much obliged for your interesting letter.2 The case of the white chickens surprises me much, but nothing can be more perplexing than the ‘laws & causes of variability & inheritance.3 I am glad that any of my books should have at all interested you, as some return for the pleasure which I have derived from yours.4
I am writing this away from home, which I have left for some rest, so I beg you to excuse brevity.—5
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Zincke, Foster Barham. 1871. Egypt of the pharaohs and of the khedivé. London: Smith, Elder, and Co.
Summary
Thanks for a letter describing variation in chickens.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10515F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Foster Barham Zincke
- Source of text
- Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (Natural Sciences collections at the Faculty Library of Natural and Health Sciences)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10515F,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10515F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24