From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
17 July [1853]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 84)
Summary:
Discusses Rugby and education in general. The enormous proportion of time spent on classics checks interest "in anything in which reasoning & observation comes into play".
Expresses shock and sympathy on learning of the deaths in WDF’s house.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project