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.
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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.
There is so much detail in Variation that WDF will never be able to finish it. Some chapters, like that on reversion, are "curious".
Is working on "Sexual selection"; asks WDF to send observations on birds’ finding new mates during breeding season [see Descent 2: 103–7].
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".
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.
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.
Thanks WDF for information about sheep and cattle.
Mentions corrections for new edition of Origin [5th ed. (1869)].
Would much like to see Dr Birchfield appointed superintendent of the new asylum at Woking.
Hopes they might meet as WDF has to come to town.
Plans to meet CD in town.
Discusses crossed varieties of sheep and ducks.
A "quiz" on CD has appeared in the Illustrated Times [2 May 1863, p. 317].
Recommends that CD visit Dr MacLeod’s [hydropathic] establishment near Ilkley.
Gives directions to CD’s daughter’s [Anne’s] grave.
Would like to come to Down to visit.
Congratulates CD on the Copley Medal.
Thanks CD for his Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Tells of the birth of his 16th child. Has five grandchildren.
His second son [C. W. Fox] has a studentship at Christ Church, Oxford.
[Isolated fragments only.]
Is looking for CD’s book [Variation]; does not know whether it is yet published.
Wants to know whether Variation is published and how the other book [CD’s proposed volume on variation in nature] is going.