To W. B. Tegetmeier 22 June [1858]1
Down Bromley Kent
June 22d
My dear Sir
I enclose with many thanks a P.O. for the Hive,2 which my learned Apiarian neighbour says is the best of kind, which he has ever seen.—3
I shall be very glad to see your Scotch Hive with bits of new comb.— And I am still gladder you are going to describe your cell, excavated in wax before the Entomolog. Socy. 4 If at any future time you remove it, perhaps you will let me see it.— I shall have another window made in your Hive on opposite face, with glass removable.
I have begun on my Pigeons & hope in week or two to have finished with them, but I fear they will be of very little value to you.—5
My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for hive.
Has started [writing up] pigeons and hopes to have finished with them in a week or two.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2289
- 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 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2289,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2289.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7