To W. B. Tegetmeier 23 August [1856]1
Down Bromley Kent
Aug 23d.
My dear Sir
I shall be particularly glad of the Victoria Runt for skeleton & measurement.:2 will you send it exactly thus addressed per Coach diag Ch. Darwin Esqe
care of Mr Acton
Post office
Bromley
Kentramme
Will you enclose a bit of paper telling me where I could send in London in a fortnight or 3 weeks time the 2 Scanderoons, which seem to me very fine Birds.3 Our Carrier leaves every Wednesday night, & wd deliver pretty early the Birds anywhere in London on the Thursday morning.— I will not send them off till quite strong, & wd. advise you of their going.—
About what age is your dead Runt?
yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Instructions for delivering pigeons to Down.
Has Scandaroons for WBT.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1943
- 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 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1943,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1943.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6
