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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
6 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 148)
Summary:

There is so much detail in Variation that WDF will never be able to finish it. Some chapters, like that on reversion, are "curious".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
25 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 148a)
Summary:

Is working on "Sexual selection"; asks WDF to send observations on birds’ finding new mates during breeding season [see Descent 2: 103–7].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project