From F. B. Goodacre 8 September 1879
Wilby Rectory | Attlebro’ | Norfolk
Sept 8./79
Dear Sir,
I am much obliged to you for your very kind letter,1 I have just heard from my friend who I thought would like your old goose, he says he intends keeping his present pair but does not wish to keep more stock birds: however if you would rather return the old gander & goose than kill them I find I could easily find homes for them, as a neighbouring clergyman said he would keep a pair of geese for me & help in the experiment of crossbreeding I leave it therefore to you to send the old birds or not or either of them as most convenient to yourself & merely enclose a label that there may be no mistake about the Station should you send them. A goose I have lately recd. from my brother in law a very beautiful bird is now laying2 she is Chinese & is paired with Common gander I hope I may be able to rear a few goslings to see if bred obtained this way are exactly like those got by first cross
Believe me | yrs truly | F B Goodacre
CD annotations
Footnotes
Summary
Can dispose of CD’s geese if he wishes.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12221
- From
- Francis Burges Goodacre
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Attleborough, Norfolk
- Source of text
- DAR 165: 68
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12221,” accessed on 26 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12221.xml