From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
8 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 110)
Summary:
Birth of his sixth son [C. W. Darwin]. It is dreadful "to think of all the sendings to school and the professions afterwards".
CD is not well but has not the courage for water-cure again; trying mineral acids.
Working hard on the book [Natural selection]; is overwhelmed with riches in facts and interested in way facts fall into groups.
To his surprise [Helix pomatia] has withstood 14 days in salt water.
Pigeons’ skins come in from all parts of the world.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project