To W. D. Fox 7 March [1852]
Summary
Congratulates and "condoles" with WDF on a tenth child.
On education, he has not had courage to break away from "the old stereotyped stupid classical education"; has sent William to Rugby.
The first Ray Society volume [Living Cirripedia] is finished.
Has joined in a society to prosecute violators of the act against use of children in climbing chimneys.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 7 Mar [1852] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 80) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1476 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Gerard, 2 1 2 years old. According to Emma Darwin’s diary, she and CD, with Henrietta and …
- … in-law. Emma returned home on 10 April ( Emma Darwin’s diary). Fox was rector of Delamere, …
- … vol. 5, Appendix I). On 2 April, Emma and Susan Darwin travelled to Barlaston to visit …
- … Emma, that had I been, as I was in old days, I would have been certainly off that hour— You ask after Erasmus; he is much as usual, & constantly more or less
〈 unw〉 ell. Susan is much better, & very flourishing & happy. Catherine is at Rome & has enjoyed it in a degree that is quite astonishing to my old dry bones. — And now I think I have told you enough & more than enough about the house of Darwin; …
To W. D. Fox 24 [October 1852]
Summary
News of his health; has been well of late, but cannot stand excitement. Hereditary weakness is another of his bugbears.
At work on cirripedes – "I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 24 [Oct 1852] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 81) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1489 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … On 25 October 1852, Emma Darwin noted in her diary: ‘Mr Sowerby came’. On 4 November CD …
- … Correspondence vol. 3, letter to Emma Darwin, [24 June 1846] , n. 2). William Erasmus …
- … 7 March [1852] . Horace Darwin was born on 13 May 1851 and was Emma’s last child until the …
- … Susan Darwin, 22–31 July 1833 , for a description of Frances Jane Fox . Several of Emma’s …