To W. B. Tegetmeier   18 February [1857]1

Down Bromley Kent

Feb. 18th

My dear Sir

I have just received some Fowls from the Rajah Sir James Brooke,2 which are not of much interest, but as I have thought you would like to display all you cd. at Zoolog. Soc.3 I will this night send them to Carstang’s. They consist of white silk Fowls originally from China, one crested, & some frizzled Fowls of unknown origin procured at Singapore. They are labelled.—

My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin

1
Dated by the relationship to the letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 11 February [1857].
2
James Brooke, raja of Saráwak, was one of the correspondents to whom CD had written in December 1855 (see Correspondence vol. 5, CD memorandum, [December 1855]).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2054,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2054