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Darwin Correspondence Project

To John Innes   11 September [1860]

Down Bromley Kent

Sept. 11th

Dear Innes.

I am very sorry to say that I fear we shall not see you when you come to Keston,1 for we have almost made up our minds to be off next week to sea-side for a month to see what the change will do for Etty,—though I have not much hope.

Your account of the Donkey has interested me much & would you be so kind as to have another look at it & observe whether its eyes are pink; but as you say it is rather cream-coloured than white, it probably is not an albino.—   Did the owner rear it; if so please ask him whether it was born of same colour & had then no stripes.— Anytime will do for an answer.—2

I am sorry to hear about your house difficulties.3

Dear Innes | Ever yours very truly | C. Darwin.

Footnotes

Keston is a village about three miles from Down.
See letter to John Innes, 6 September [1860]. Innes’s information about donkeys is not cited by CD in Variation.

Bibliography

Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.

Summary

Going to sea-side for Etty’s health.

Asks JBI further questions about a striped donkey he had reported to CD.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-2912
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
John Brodie Innes
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Physical description
ALS 3pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2912,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2912.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8

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