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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 14 May 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 86: A83–4
Summary:
Pairing habits of birds: polygamy among ducks and canaries.
Information on the proportion of sexes in fowls and other birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 186
Summary:
Congratulates [G. H. Darwin] on being Second Wrangler.
Thanks CD for Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 187
Summary:
Regrets he cannot get to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
22 [Mar 1860]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 127)
Summary:
Only proof that internal organs and bones were intermediate would convince CD of the possibility of the astounding [deer] hybrid WDF has reported.
Has WDF positive knowledge that common ganders do not always turn white?
Has begun his larger books. New editions of Origin will appear.
What is right and wrong in it will soon be sifted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
18 May [1860]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 128)
Summary:
Attacks [on Origin] are "hot and heavy". Adam Sedgwick and William Clark at Cambridge Philosophical Society opened a battery. J. S. Henslow defended in grand style.
Slow progress on bigger book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project