To W. B. Tegetmeier 23 June [1857]1
Moor Park | Farnham | Surrey
June 23d
My dear Sir
I quite forgot to say one thing in my last note.2 Of the eggs of the rumpless Fowls only 3 hatched—2 jet black & one a little banded. Now would you believe it, owing to my fault in not having given clear enough instructions these three were hatched two or three days before I heard of it!— So that after all your kindness I have not got a chicken about 24 hours before Birth.—3 Shall you hatch any more? What would you say to exchange two of my chickens when nearly full grown, for an egg with young chick in it, about 24 hours before birth.— You could have two nearly full-grown instead of one not born.—
In case you had eggs hatching soon, I may state that I shall be here till the 30th morning, & after that at Down.— Forgive, if you can, my stupidity: I beg you not to take the trouble to answer this merely to acknowledge it.—
Your’s very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
CD anxious to examine rumpless chick 24 hours before hatching.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2110
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Bernhard Tegetmeier
- Sent from
- Moor Park
- Source of text
- Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2110,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2110.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6