To Skeffington Poole 20 October [1858]1
Down Bromley Kent
Oct 20th
Sir
I write merely to thank you for so kindly taking the trouble to acknowledge my note, and for your promise of any information in your power.2 By native horses I meant any with which you were acquainted, and more especially the Kattywar Breed.3
Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Ch.Darwin
P.S | I have seen it stated that the Kattywar horses are stumpy or cob-built; but I notice that Col. Curtis4 incidentally speaks of them as rather long-legged or lanky & for Indian Horses tall. How is this, would you be so good as to tell me.
I would also ask whether you ever happened to notice any dark stripe on the head, or near the eye?
Footnotes
Summary
Asks about Kattywar (Kathiawari) horses in India.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2346F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Skeffington Poole
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Ronald Levine, Modern 1st Editions (dealer) (no date)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2346F,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2346F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18 (Supplement)