From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
7 May [1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 90)
Summary:
William Yarrell has assured him that call ducks cross freely with common varieties. CD would like a seven-day duckling and an old one that dies a natural death.
CD is depressed – all his experiments are going wrong, "all nature is perverse and will not do as I wish it". Feels he is getting out of his depth.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project