To W. D. Fox 4 June [1856]1
Down Bromley Kent
June 4th
My dear Fox
I write one line only (for I have been writing till I am quite wearied) to say that a Dorking Cock, more like an ostrich than a simple fowl, arrived this morning; & I presume from you.—
It is a splendid acquisition, & I thank you much for it.— It will make a grand skeleton.—
I hope all is well with you.— | My dear Fox | Yours most truly | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Dated by the relationship to letter to W. D. Fox, 8 [June 1856].
Summary
Thanks WDF for specimen of Dorking cock.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1887
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Darwin Fox
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.130)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1887,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1887.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6
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