To W. B. Tegetmeier 21 November [1857]1
Down Bromley Kent
Nov. 21st
My dear Sir
Thank you for your note. I have been looking over my Catalogue of specimens,2 & find to my surprise that I have no young chicken of Malay & without that for comparison, the skeleton of an old Bird wd. be comparatively useless to me; & therefore I think, if you could help me to purchase a few Malay eggs in the Spring, it would be much better for me than now getting a Cockrel; but I am sorry you shd. have had the trouble of writing for nothing.
Next summer I shall probably give away all my Pigeons & you may rely on it, I will inform you.—3
I killed some young Jacobins the other day, which from being Bull-eyed I did not think worth sending you.
As soon as ever I can find time to go over my little disquisition on Pigeons, & compare the skeletons &c. I shall give up Pigeons.—4
I shall certainly attend, (health permitting) the Annual Show of Philoperisteron.5 I am glad to hear you liked my little notice on Kidney Beans.—6
My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Will you keep in mind Malay Eggs.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Natural selection: Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975.
Summary
When he has reviewed his work, he will give up pigeons and will probably give them away next summer. Wants a few Malay eggs in the spring.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2173
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Bernhard Tegetmeier
- Sent from
- Down
- 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. 2173,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2173.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6