To W. D. Fox 23 March [1863]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
March 23d
My dear Fox
I am particularly glad to have the authentic particulars & your own cases; both of which I shall give on your authority.2 In the old note I, no doubt, read 23 for 13 lambs: at the time I supposed that the ewes had bred for two seasons.— The whole case seems a good one for showing preponderance of one colour over other.—3
Many thanks.—
We doubt a little about Malvern, for I am having an attack of Eczema on my face, which does me as much good as Gout does others; & which renders cold water to my face intolerable; so that I could not stand water-cure of any kind, as I found at Ilkley, when I had first attack of this horrid & blessed eczema.—4
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Thanks WDF for authentic details of number and colour of lambs [Variation 2: 30].
Complains of his eczema.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4057
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Darwin Fox
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.292)
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4057,” accessed on 30 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4057.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11