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To Edward Bartlett   15 October [1871]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Oct 15th

Dear Sir

I hope that you will excuse me troubling you, but I shd. be greatly obliged if you could send me pretty soon (as my M.S. must go to the Printers) any information on the Egyptian goose, both sifting the water & biting or tearing like a common goose the herbage.—2

I hope that you received safely the P.O.3 & the 2 geese which were returned.

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Edward Bartlett, 16 October 1871.
2
See also letter to Edward Bartlett, [24] September [1871]. CD refers to the sixth edition of Origin. The Egyptian goose is now Alopochen aegyptiaca.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8010,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8010