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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
6 Feb [1849]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 71)
Summary:

His memory of his recently deceased father is a treasure to him.

Thanks WDF for information on the water-cure. Dislikes the thought of it.

Reports results of his experiments with tied-up fruit-trees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[6 Mar 1849]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 72)
Summary:

The entire family will set out for Malvern for six to eight weeks’ trial of J. M. Gully’s water-cure.

Family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
24 [Mar 1849]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 73)
Summary:

Reports progress with water-cure. Describes the treatment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
18 Apr [1849]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 73a)
Summary:

Continues to improve, but water-cure has produced "indolence and stagnation of mind".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
7 [July 1849]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 74)
Summary:

Continues water-cure treatment at home and must do so for a year. Considers himself absolutely cured.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[before 3 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 107)
Summary:

The potato seeds were collected in 1835 from tubers in a remote area of the Cordilleras of Chile and were certainly wild. Refers him to Journal [of researches, p. 347].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[7 June 1840]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 60)
Summary:

Family news.

CD’s health is improving, but he has scarcely put pen to paper in the last half-year, and everything in the publishing line is going backwards.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[25 Jan 1841]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 59)
Summary:

Birds has gone to the printer.

Continues "to collect all kinds of facts about ""varieties and species"" " for his "some-day work".

Would be grateful for descriptions of offspring of crossbred domestic animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[23 Aug 1841]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 61)
Summary:

Consents to be godfather to WDF’s child.

Sends family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[28 Sept 1841]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 62)
Summary:

Sends news of his house-hunting.

Envies WDF his discovery of Cheirotherium footprints.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
23 Mar [1842]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 57)
Summary:

Letter of condolence on the death of WDF’s wife [Harriet Fletcher Fox].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[31 Mar 1842]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 56)
Summary:

Second letter of condolence, following burial of Mrs Fox.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[9 Dec 1842]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 64)
Summary:

CD likes Down House, describes countryside.

Tells of Edward Charlesworth fracas at Geological Society.

Is at work on Volcanic islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[25 Mar 1843]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 66)
Summary:

Sympathises with WDF’s persisting grief.

Describes Down House and additions being built, which interfere with Geology [of "Beagle"].

Bodily health is improved, but cannot stand mental excitement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[4 Sept 1843]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 67)
Summary:

Comments on his visit to N. Wales and the evidence of glaciation, of which he feels certain.

His marine theory [of the parallel roads of Glen Roy] has revived after Louis Agassiz’s "ice work" knocked it on the head.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[20 Nov 1843]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 68)
Summary:

Family news and their quiet life at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
20 Dec [1844]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 70)
Summary:

Tells of his father’s ill health.

Discusses mesmerism and Harriet Martineau’s recovery. If animals could be put into a stupor, he would be convinced. Suggests WDF have some mesmeriser attempt it with cats.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[13 Feb 1845]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 69a)
Summary:

News of his family and his own health. He is able to work three hours a day on the geology of South America.

Harriet Martineau is greatly excited by mesmerism.

Tells of Sydney Smith’s dream.

Asks for some [S. American] potatoes to test "sporting".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[24 Apr 1845]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 69)
Summary:

Murray will publish a second edition of the Journal [of researches].

CD has finished first version of South America.

A strange book, The vestiges [of creation (1844)] has appeared and some have attributed it to CD. He is "flattered and unflattered".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project