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DCP-LETT-5392

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
6 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 147)
Summary:

Has just sent MS of Variation off to printer. Is in darkness about its merits.

News of family and their health. Riding seems to help him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5842

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

DCP-LETT-5929

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

DCP-LETT-6172

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

WDF’s letter gives CD the kind of facts he wants. His story about peacocks is so good that CD will quote it [Descent 2: 46].

Pleased WDF approves of his book [Variation]

– "beloved Pangenesis disagrees badly with many".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6426

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
21 Oct [1868]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 149); DAR 266
Summary:

Reminds WDF to write about the "great magpie marriage". Sexual selection an "everlasting subject".

News of his children.

Asks for information on instances of sexual preference in animals and data on numbers of males and females born in various domesticated species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6447

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
4 Nov 1868
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 150)
Summary:

Much interested in WDF’s letter on inheritance and courtship of birds. CD "in a great muddle" on many points.

Asks for further information on proportion of sexes in sheep.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6500

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
12 Dec [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.357)
Summary:

Thanks WDF for information about sheep and cattle.

Mentions corrections for new edition of Origin [5th ed. (1869)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13808

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 1 Mar 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 205
Summary:

Would much like to see Dr Birchfield appointed superintendent of the new asylum at Woking.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3970

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 176
Summary:

Hopes they might meet as WDF has to come to town.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3979

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 177
Summary:

Plans to meet CD in town.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4037

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 178
Summary:

Discusses crossed varieties of sheep and ducks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4178

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16–22 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 175
Summary:

A "quiz" on CD has appeared in the Illustrated Times [2 May 1863, p. 317].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4193

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 179
Summary:

Recommends that CD visit Dr MacLeod’s [hydropathic] establishment near Ilkley.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4296

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 180
Summary:

Gives directions to CD’s daughter’s [Anne’s] grave.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4484

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 [May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 181
Summary:

Would like to come to Down to visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4683

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 182
Summary:

Congratulates CD on the Copley Medal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4741

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 183
Summary:

Thanks CD for his Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].

Tells of the birth of his 16th child. Has five grandchildren.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4903

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 26 Oct 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 204 (fragile)
Summary:

His second son [C. W. Fox] has a studentship at Christ Church, Oxford.

[Isolated fragments only.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5195

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Aug [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 184
Summary:

Is looking for CD’s book [Variation]; does not know whether it is yet published.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5388

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 185
Summary:

Wants to know whether Variation is published and how the other book [CD’s proposed volume on variation in nature] is going.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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