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From T. C. Eyton   [after 19 May 1862?]1

Dear Darwin

I was persuaded to sit the other day for a photograph a copy of which I enclose in hopes that you will do the same thing and send me a copy2   I have got lots of chicken by the jungle fowl from game hens3

Yours truly | Th C Eyton

Eyton

Saturday

CD annotations

Top of first page: ‘1862’ pencil

Footnotes

The date is conjectured from CD’s annotation and from Eyton’s use of stationery with a mourning border: his father-in-law, Robert Aglionby Slaney, died on 19 May 1862 (DNB).
Eyton’s photograph has not been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL.
In 1861, CD had sought assistance from Eyton while preparing chapter 7 of Variation on domesticated fowl (see Correspondence vol. 9, letters to T. C. Eyton, 3 May [1861], 6 May [1861], and 14 May [1861]).

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.

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

Summary

Sends photograph. Asks CD for his.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-3364
From
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Eyton, Wellington, Salop
Source of text
DAR 163: 40
Physical description
ALS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3364,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3364.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10

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