To W. B. Tegetmeier 25 [June 1857]1
[Moor Park]
Thursday 25th
My dear Sir
One egg will amply suffice, if you will be so kind as to send it to Down as soon as one chips the shell.— I presume if the egg were put in cold water it would easily & soon kill the Chick: it wd be as well just to see that there was a chick inside. To save trouble I enclose some stamps which I presume will cover the weight.—
With many thanks | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
At last just before leaving home I got all the published numbers of the Poultry Book & shall soon study them.—2 At some future time I shall be glad of skull of the G. Bankiva again.—3
Do you think it wd. be any use my writing to Mr Bridges to ask for Carcase of the long-winged Runt? If so when you send egg will you tell me address.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Needs only one nearly-hatched chick.
Has all published numbers of Poultry book [1856–7].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2111
- 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 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2111,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2111.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6
