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:
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
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
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:
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