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From Joseph Fayrer   31 August 1875

India Office 16 Granville Place.

31 August 1875

Dear Mr. Darwin

I have the pleasure of sending a little book in which you will perhaps find something that may interest you. May I beg you to do me the honor of accepting it   It was written from notes made during my travels and is meant more for general than scientific readers.1

But it contains facts in the natural history of the Tiger that may atone for its defects.

I hope you are well!

Believe me— | Yours very truly | J. Fayrer—

P.S. | I am going to India with the Prince of Wales on 11 Octr—& shall be away probably till May 1876.

Can I do anything to be of service to you.?2

1
CD’s copy of Fayrer’s The royal tiger of Bengal (Fayrer 1875) is in the Darwin Library–Down; in it Fayrer reprinted diary entries from several tiger hunts in 1855 and 1870 (ibid., pp. 75–99).
2
Fayrer had informed CD of his impending visit to India with Albert Edward, the prince of Wales, and offered to undertake commissions, in his letter of 8 July 1875. During the expedition, the prince opened the zoological gardens in Calcutta, which had originally been proposed by Fayrer (ODNB s.v. Fayrer, Sir Joseph).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10142,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10142