To William Henty 26 May 1868
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
May 26 1868
Dear Sir
I am very much obliged for your kindness in sending me the table about the Sheep.1 This is a really valuable contribution. I am ashamed to trouble you, but its value wd be greatly enhanced if you cd find out for me whether the sheep belonged to one breed & its name, or to several breeds.
With respect to the other subject referred to in your letter, you may like to hear that I have lately been informed by Mr Harward, a large breeder of Shorthorns, that he tried M. Thury’s plan, & that it quite failed.2
With my best thanks, pray believe me dear Sir | yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks WH for sending a table about sheep. Wishes to know if the sheep belonged to one or several breeds. Mr Harward, a breeder of shorthorns, has tried M. Thury’s plan, and it failed.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6211F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Henty
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Clifford D. Stromberg (private collection)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6211F,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6211F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
