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To W. D. Fox   1 September [1873]

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Has been in bed for some days with ugly head symptoms. "We are a poor lot."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  1 Sept [1873]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 152)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9040

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  • … is recorded in the letter from Emma Darwin to H.  E.  Litchfield, [24] April 1873 (DAR …

To W. D. Fox   2 December 1877

Summary

Working hard on physiology of plants.

His son George sees no reason to change his view on marriage of cousins.

George’s astronomical work is too deep for CD.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  2 Dec 1877
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 155)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11266

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  • … was frequently unwell ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [11 June 1877] (DAR …
  • Litchfield , CD’s son-in-law, had been taken ill with acute appendicitis in Switzerland in September; he arrived back in England in November (see letter to Horace Darwin, 1 November [1877] and n. 7). Leonard Darwin had injured his knee playing tennis ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. …
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