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To T. C. Eyton   22 [July 1857]1

Down Bromley Kent

22d

Dear Eyton

I have been rather amiss in not before sending you the W. African Dog-skin; but it shall be sent off this very night.— I was assured by Dr. Daniell that it was a very characteristic specimen of the pure native dog of Sierra Leone &c.2

Dear Eyton | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin

1
The date is conjectured by the relationship to the letter to T. C. Eyton, 9 June [1857], in which CD offered to send Eyton the skin of a domestic dog of West Africa. Since CD states that he will send the skin ‘this very night’, the letter must have been written on a Wednesday, before the weekly carrier departed for London at 2 AM on Thursday morning. Wednesday, 22 July, is the most probable date.
2
William Freeman Daniell provided CD with several specimens of domestic animals and fowls from West Africa (see letter to T. C. Eyton, 5 October [1856]).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2126,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2126