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From William Johnson Raybould to Abraham Dee Bartlett   22 August 1870

6 Gladstone Place | High Park Road | Smethwick | Nr Birmingham

Augt 22 1870,

To the Manager of the | Royal Zoological Gardens | London1

Sir/

I have a Tortoise shell Coloured Cat with 6 claws perfect on each Foot also 2 young ones with the same Number of Toes or claws, one Cream & white, & the other Blk & white, a month old   Are they worth your notice (If so make me an offer for them)2

Kindly say & oblige | Yours very truly | W J Raybould

1
Bartlett was superintendent of the Zoological Society of London’s gardens in Regent’s Park and had supplied CD with information used in Variation; presumably Bartlett forwarded this letter believing that it might be of interest to CD (see n. 2, below).
2
CD had discussed supernumerary digits in animals and humans in Variation 2: 12–17.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7307,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7307