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DCP-LETT-2300

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
2 July [1858]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 116)
Summary:

Baby [Charles Waring Darwin] died of scarlet fever on 28 June. "Fear has almost driven away grief."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2304

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
6 July [1858]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-73)
Summary:

The crisis is abating – no further scarlet fever in the family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2312

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
21 [July 1858]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 118)
Summary:

After all, CD is now beginning to prepare an abstract of his species theory. Recounts the events leading to joint paper with A. R. Wallace at Linnean Society. Lyell and Hooker urge strongly that he publish a fuller abstract. It is impossible to do justice to subject in an abstract.

His sister, Marianne Parker, has died.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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