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From W. D. Fox   19 May [1868]1

Hillfield | Hampstead

19 May

My dear Darwin

I wish very much I could have run over to Down while here, but it is quite hopeless for me to think of doing so. I return home on Saturday, and am not equal to any extra exertion I can help, tho I ⁠⟨⁠am⁠⟩⁠ very comfortably well, as long as I am quite idle, as my pain tho constant, is very bearable.2

I have not time to enter into your letter today, but will do so ere long.

I should much have enjoyed seeing you, and Mrs Darwin again—if I could.

Yours always | W D Fox

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to W. D. Fox, 14 May [1868].
2
See letter to W. D. Fox, 14 May [1868]. Fox lived at Delamere Rectory, Northwich, Cheshire. For Fox’s recent health, see the letter from W. D. Fox, 3 February [1868]. Fox was visiting his father-in-law, Basil George Woodd, of Hillfield House, Haverstock Hill, Hampstead (Post Office London suburban directory 1868).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6187,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6187