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To W. D. Fox   [17 May 1862]

Leith Hill Place | Dorking

Saturday

My dear Fox

Your letter has been forwarded here, where we remain till Thursday evening.1 I am so very sorry to miss your visit. Our house is utter confusion with painters & we shall, when we return have to live in a bed-room; but I think by Monday or Tuesday week one room will be ready; is there any chance of your being in London so long as that?—

Very many thanks for your letter about Turkeys, which interests me much.2 If without very great trouble you could get me any more information about the fertility &c of the hybrids or mongrels, I shd. be very much obliged.—

In Haste | My dear Fox | Ever yours | C. Darwin

Postmark: MY 17 62

1
In his ‘Journal’ (see Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix II), CD recorded spending 15 to 22 May 1862 at Leith Hill Place, the Surrey home of his sister Caroline Sarah Wedgwood and her husband Josiah Wedgwood III, Emma Darwin’s brother.
2
Fox’s letter has not been found. CD had asked Fox for information about crosses between wild and domestic turkeys in the letter to W. D. Fox, 12 May [1862].

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-3555,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-3555