To W. D. Fox 1 September [1873]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Sept 1.
My dear old friend.
I shd. have written before, but I have been in bed for some days with ugly Head symptoms, but the Doctors thinks that these are only secondary.2 They tell me, however, to do as little as possible for some time. I will therefore only write a line to say how glad I shd. be to see you here whenever I am decently well.— Your pleasant letter has pleased me much in many ways.3
Ah the old days! This is the first of September. How well I remember some of our shooting excursions.4
My head swims, I must write no more. | Farewell | My dear old friend | Ch. Darwin
My son George is better, but he has been compelled to give up his profession.—5
Emma is fairly well.— We are a poor lot.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Has been in bed for some days with ugly head symptoms. "We are a poor lot."
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9040
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Darwin Fox
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 152)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9040,” accessed on 6 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9040.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21