To G. H. K. Thwaites 28 September [1868]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Sept. 28th
My dear Thwaites
I write a few lines merely to thank you & to beg you to thank for me Mr. Layard for all the trouble which you have taken.2
I am surprised at the result for not only is Mr E. Layard generally very trustworthy, but Mr Blyth tells exactly the same story in regard to the same fowls in Bengal.3
The Officers of the Zoolog. Socy. very foolishly in my opinion, object to domestic varieties, so that it would not be worth while to send them there or to me.—4 I am nevertheless truly obliged for the offer.—
With cordial thanks | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Layard, Edgar Leopold. 1853–4. Notes on the ornithology of Ceylon, collected during an eight years’ residence in the island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2d ser. 12: 97–107, 165–76, 262–72; 13: 123–31, 212–18, 257–64, 446–53; 14: 57–64, 105–15, 264–72.
Summary
Asks him to thank E. L. Layard for trouble taken.
Says Zoological Society "very foolishly" wants no specimens of domestic varieties [from Ceylon].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6395
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.343)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6395,” accessed on 9 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6395.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16