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To T. C. Eyton   3 December [1855]

Down Bromley Kent

Dec. 3d.

Dear Eyton

Very many thanks for the information which will be of the greatest use to me.— I am well in my subject & have got several Pigeons already in water & very many alive & flourishing, & I mean to try to get Domestic Pigeons from all parts of the world.—1

I am delighted to hear that you are at dogs;2 it will be splendid for my work individually, & I am sure most desirable for Science.

I have somewhere, I am almost certain, the head of a Chinese Dog:3 would you like to have this? if so (always supposing that I can find it) shall I send it you direct, or have it left anywhere in London.—

I have alive a German Spitz Dog,4 very pure bred; if it shd. die, shd. I send you the carcase? but as it is young, probably it will live long.—

With many thanks | Yours most truly | Ch. Darwin

1
See CD’s memorandum, [December 1855].
3
In CD’s Questions and experiments notebook, p. 22 (Notebooks), there is a list of points to discuss with Eyton dated October 1844, including a reference to ‘Chinese Dog’s Head to send’.
4
A pomeranian dog.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.3 Domestic] interl
3.1 the] before omitted point
3.3 or] over ‘—’
4.2 carcase?] ‘?’ over full stop

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1789,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1789