To G. H. K. Thwaites 2 September 1868
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Sep 2. 1868
My dear Thwaites
I am very much obliged to you for taking all my questions so very kindly & pleasantly.1 You have indeed entered on the fowl question in real earnest & I feel very thankful for the point interests me much & may throw light on a very obscure problem.2
I trust to you to be so good as to let me hear as soon as you have any information.
Many thanks for Mr Glenie’s excellent letter, to whom I have written by this post to return my thanks for his kindness.3
With all good wishes believe me | my dear Thwaites | yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks GHKT and S. O. Glenie for information about fowls.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6344
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.354)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6344,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6344.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
