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DCP-LETT-2407

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
4 Feb [1859]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Wants white breeds of poultry.

Poor health necessitates a trip to Moor Park, Farnham.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2417

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
21 [Feb 1859]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Sends list of poultry breeds he would like.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2423

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
5 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Sends payment for poultry received.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2450A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
9 Apr [1859]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (tipped into W. B. Tegetmeier’s presentation copy of Origin (DC BD 309); General Special Collections DC AL 1/6)
Summary:

Thanks WBT for his help with poultry

and informs him about his forthcoming work [Origin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2479

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
5 Aug [1859]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has an astonishing lot of mongrel poultry and expects next generation to approach Gallus bankiva in red-brown plumage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2491

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
13 Sept [1859]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Reports the results of some poultry crossing experiments; comments on transmission of different features.

"My unlucky Book [Origin] will be published 1st week in November."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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