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DCP-LETT-6436

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Oct [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 189; DAR 193: 112; DAR 83: 187, DAR 84.1: 128–30, DAR 86: A87–9
Summary:

Thanks CD for a recent letter.

Reports on his health, which has been bad for 12 months.

Sends extracts of works on domestication.

Discusses the pairing of various birds; comments on the pugnacity of partridges, pheasants, male guinea-fowl, and peacocks.

Gives proportions of sexes in pheasants.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6455

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 126–7, DAR 85: B36–7
Summary:

Hybrid geese.

Proportions of sexes in sheep and cattle.

Pairing habits of crows.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10073

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 200
Summary:

Thanks CD for Insectivorous plants.

Is coming to London and hopes to visit Down.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10923

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 110: B62
Summary:

Reports on upward projection of Pulmonaria flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11261

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 201
Summary:

Congratulates W. E. Darwin, who is about to be married,

and CD for the LL.D. conferred upon him by Cambridge.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11355

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 202
Summary:

Congratulates CD on his birthday.

WDF has been suffering from bronchitis.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11625

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 July [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 203
Summary:

Thanks CD for his condolences. Reminisces about their youth.

On the death of his naturalist friend, W. C. Hewitson.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11799

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 77: 170
Summary:

Informs CD that in his experience with peas he has never found the seed to deteriorate.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11913

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 172–4
Summary:

Sends family news;

describes what remains of his "menagerie" and tells of his interest in the framework of his son’s German badger-hound.

Contributor:
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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:
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DCP-LETT-1646

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 174
Summary:

Is trying to procure some cocks for CD.

Believes Scotch deerhounds are mongrels.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-175

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 June 1832
Source of text:
DAR 204: 106
Summary:

Has been away from parish because of a three-month illness. Refers briefly to events in England since the Beagle sailed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-184

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug & 28 Sept 1832
Source of text:
DAR 204: 107
Summary:

He is staying on the Isle of Wight because he has been unwell. He is thought to be in danger of contracting consumption, and the climate is beneficial. He is convalescent now, but will spend the winter there.

Offers to forward any natural history stores CD may want.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-197

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 121
Summary:

His health has improved but he continues "a good deal of an invalid" and is uncertain what the future holds for him.

His interest in entomology and ornithology continues; he has been studying the gulls on the Isle of Wight.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-261

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov 1834
Source of text:
DAR 204: 124
Summary:

WDF sends news of his activities and of his family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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DCP-LETT-418

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Nov 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 173
Summary:

Reports on the effects of inbreeding in dogs and the results of crossing Canada and common geese.

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