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From T. C. Eyton   [after 19 May 1862?]1

Dear Darwin

I was persuaded to sit the other day for a photograph a copy of which I enclose in hopes that you will do the same thing and send me a copy2   I have got lots of chicken by the jungle fowl from game hens3

Yours truly | Th C Eyton

Eyton

Saturday

CD annotations

Top of first page: ‘1862’ pencil
1
The date is conjectured from CD’s annotation and from Eyton’s use of stationery with a mourning border: his father-in-law, Robert Aglionby Slaney, died on 19 May 1862 (DNB).
2
Eyton’s photograph has not been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL.
3
In 1861, CD had sought assistance from Eyton while preparing chapter 7 of Variation on domesticated fowl (see Correspondence vol. 9, letters to T. C. Eyton, 3 May [1861], 6 May [1861], and 14 May [1861]).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-3364,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-3364