To W. D. Fox [15 March 1829]
Summary
His routine days at Cambridge.
Entomology stopped for the present.
His reading, gambling, and parties. News of Cambridge friends.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [15 Mar 1829] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-59 |
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- … letters to W. D. Fox, 1 April [1829] and [10 April 1829] ). Polo was a apparently a nickname. In an anecdote about his father, George Darwin says: ‘Amongst his Cambridge expeditions I remember his speaking of going down to the fens … with a sporting sort of guide who went by the name of Marco Polo, because he carried a leaping pole with a flat board fastened at the bottom for leaping the ditches’ (DAR 112 (ser. 2): 17). ] …
