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DCP-LETT-4487

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[6 May 1864]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 143)
Summary:

CD has been so ill they must discourage visit by WDF. Recovering slowly with new treatment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4497

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
16 May [1864]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 144)
Summary:

Urges WDF to send trap he has invented to the exhibition and competition of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Advertisement of Brailsford’s Patent Vermin Trap enclosed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4685

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
30 Nov [1864]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 145)
Summary:

The Copley Medal is considered a great honour, but such things make little difference to CD, except for the several kind letters he received. It shows that natural selection is making some progress.

His health is poor.

Work is crawling on Variation;

occasional botany recreative.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4924

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
25–6 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 146)
Summary:

Bad health during last six months has prevented scientific work.

News of family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5197

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
24 Aug [1866]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Family news. Describes [final] illness of Susan Darwin [d. 3 Oct 1866]. CD’s health better.

Making rapid progress on Variation.

Has heard of hybrids between moths mentioned by WDF.

Work on [4th] edition of Origin has delayed Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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
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