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To T. C. Eyton   27 [August 1856]1

Down Bromley Kent

27th

Dear Eyton

Will you forgive me troubling you once again?— I believe that you have attended much to Herefordshire cattle.2 I have somewhere seen an account of two strains of this cattle differing slightly in colour,—I think in more white on face. Now what I want to know, is whether in these two strains there is any other difference whatever, so that you or a good judge, could generally distinguish these breeds by any slight character, independently of the one of colour.3 Will you be so very kind as to enlighten me, & not abuse me much as being abominably troublesome.

Your’s most truly | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

Dated by the relationship to the letters to T. C. Eyton, 21 August [1856] and 31 August [1856].
Eyton had published The herd book of Hereford cattle (Eyton 1846[–53]).

Summary

Asks about strains of Herefordshire cattle.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-1946
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Sent from
Down
Source of text
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.136)
Physical description
ALS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1946,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1946.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6

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