To W. B. Tegetmeier 7 March [1858]
Summary
Wrote some weeks ago about Burmese fowl-skins; is willing to send them, carriage paid.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 7 Mar [1858] |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (15 July 2015, lot 176) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1504F |
To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 17 January [1858]
Summary
Has received Burmese fowls’ skins from Walter Elliot.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 17 Jan [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2205 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 April [1858]
Summary
CD will go over his pigeon MS and then dispose of all his birds. Has Burmese fowls’ skins if WBT is interested.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 14 Apr [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2255 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier [21 April 1858]
Summary
"Excessively" interested in theory of bees’ cell formation.
Fears few of his pigeons will be of any use to WBT.
Hopes WBT will describe foreign poultry breeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | [21 Apr 1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2260 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 9 May [1858]
Summary
Inquires about the structure and formation of bees’ comb; is interested in seeing its form at the commencement of building.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 9 May [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2271 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 5 June [1858]
Summary
Hopes to begin pigeon MS in a week.
Has lately been working on bees’ cells and wishes very much to examine a cylindrical one.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 5 June [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2280 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 8 [June 1858]
Summary
Discusses bees’ cells. Wants hive and swarm; would be glad to have WBT’s box with commenced cells. "I am partly a disciple of Waterhouse, but not wholly."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 8 [June 1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2281 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 22 June [1858]
Summary
Thanks for hive.
Has started [writing up] pigeons and hopes to have finished with them in a week or two.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 22 June [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2289 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 4 [July 1858]
Summary
Death in family [Charles Waring Darwin]. Illness of children forces him to leave home and interrupt work on pigeons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 4 [July 1858] |
Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Yale Collection of American Literature: De Forest Family Papers (YCAL MSS 582) Box 2, folder 58, item 82) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2301 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 8 September [1858]
Summary
Has finished with and is disposing of his pigeons.
Invites WBT to Down; would like to see his bees’ cells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 8 Sept [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2325 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 2 October [1858]
Summary
Ask some questions on pigeons.
Remarks on the discussion of bees’ cells at the Leeds BAAS meeting. CD fancies he has the true theory with regard to their construction.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 2 Oct [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2332 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 17 [October 1858]
Summary
Has read WBT’s interesting communication on bees’ cells [Athenæum 16 Oct 1858]. Would like to see his excavated cells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 17 [Oct 1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2344 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 16 November [1858]
Summary
Wants WBT’s advice on poultry breeding experiments. Are certain birds true to their kind, and what should he pay for them?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 16 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2362 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 27 [November 1858]
Summary
"I thank you much for your note. The object, of course, is what you say. I did not guess that I shd have to pay so much per hen to Baker & the experiment would not be at all worth such a sum. I have not a single hen worth sending to Steven’s. If it really will not cost you much trouble, & you could get me some Hens & a young Spanish cock of pure breed . . . I will try to experiment and shall be very heartily obliged to you". CD mentions satisfactory local hens of a particular breed and an experiment being conducted on "Silver Barbs [with] black wing bars & white rump or bar at end of tail".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 27 [Nov 1858] |
Classmark: | Scriptorium (dealers) (1982) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2375 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 24 December [1858]
Summary
Thanks for some poultry breeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 24 Dec [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2383 |