From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
9 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 126)
Summary:
Thanks WDF for an inkstand that keeps ink from getting muddy.
Asks if WDF can verify truth of a statement that white sows carry their young for a longer or shorter time (CD forgets which) than other colours. Presumes it is false, "but many odd peculiarities are correlated with colour".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project