To William Bernhard Tegetmeier   17 January [1858]1

Down Bromley Kent

Jan. 17th

My dear Sir

I have just received from Honble Walter Elliot a few fowls from Burma,2 & I shd. like you to see them. Will you let me have a line to say where I shall send them. They are in small not heavy Box about 2 ft by 1 & 1 deep.—

In Haste Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin

1
Although the letter was endorsed ‘1857’, presumably by Tegetmeier, it seems from the relationship to the letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 14 April [1858], that this was a mistake.
2
CD had asked Walter Elliot, a member of the council of the governor of Madras, to send him skins of domestic pigeons and poultry in 1856 (Correspondence vol. 6, letter to Walter Elliot, 23 January 1856). CD received one consignment that year and another in 1857 (ibid. vol. 6, letters to W. B.Tegetmeier, 3 November [1856] and to J. D. Hooker, 22 August [1857]).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.2 Jan.] before omitted point
1.1 Burma] ‘m’ after del illeg, ‘a’ before del illeg

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2205,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2205