To W. D. Fox [24 April 1845]
Summary
Murray will publish a second edition of the Journal [of researches].
CD has finished first version of South America.
A strange book, The vestiges [of creation (1844)] has appeared and some have attributed it to CD. He is "flattered and unflattered".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [24 Apr 1845] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 69) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-859 |
To W. D. Fox [13 February 1845]
Summary
News of his family and his own health. He is able to work three hours a day on the geology of South America.
Harriet Martineau is greatly excited by mesmerism.
Tells of Sydney Smith’s dream.
Asks for some [S. American] potatoes to test "sporting".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [13 Feb 1845] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 69a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-827 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … George Howard Darwin , CD’s second son, was born 9 July 1845. Emma ’s mother, Elizabeth ( …
- … Emma & liked it very much; I wish he had had rather a more lightsome & humorous spirit: as Carlyle would say, he was no “sham”. Farewell my dear Fox. | I hope we shall soon meet here. Ever yours | C. Darwin …
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| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. |
