From W. B. Tegetmeier 13 March 1865
Summary
Will return page on pigeons.
Has concluded his crossing experiments and found no trace of hybrid sterility or loss of fertility.
The Field is publishing a series of papers on different pigeon varieties [24 (1864): 366, 395, 459; 25 (1865): 115, 139, 155, 228, 258].
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Mar 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4785 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [28 February – 5 March 1865]
Summary
Encloses some poultry feathers.
Will read over and return CD’s MS on fowls. Has been delayed by an eye injury.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Feb – 5 Mar 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4787 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 27 March 1865
Summary
Sends copies of the Field containing all the pigeon articles [see 4785].
Luke Wells will undertake engravings for Variation.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Mar 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4796 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [29 March – 7 April 1865]
Summary
WBT’s eye is getting on very well.
Enclosure comments on a note to folio 1 [of CD’s MS on variation], WBT thinks his works not worth citing: his edition of the Poultry book was never completed and Profitable poultry is out of print.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 Mar – 7 Apr 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 62, 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4803 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 10 April 1865
Summary
MS [of CD’s pigeon chapter] arrived safely.
Pigeon and poultry engravings [for Variation].
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Apr 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4808 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 20 June 1865
Summary
WBT will try experiment for CD if Mr Zurhorst cannot do it.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 June 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4864 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier to John Murray and Robert Francis Cooke 17 April 1865
Summary
CD has asked him to supervise drawings of pigeons and fowls [for Variation]. Sends estimates for drawings and engravings by artists who do such work for the Field.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | John Murray; Robert Francis Cooke |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1865 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 136–138) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4815 |
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
