To W. D. Fox 18 May [1860]
Summary
Attacks [on Origin] are "hot and heavy". Adam Sedgwick and William Clark at Cambridge Philosophical Society opened a battery. J. S. Henslow defended in grand style.
Slow progress on bigger book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 18 May [1860] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 128) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2809 |
To W. D. Fox 30 October [1857]
Summary
Has come to think his brains were not made for thinking – he immediately feels better when at Moor Park.
News of his family.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 30 Oct [1857] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 104) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2161 |
To W. D. Fox 25 October 1833
Summary
Writes of his ride from Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca and Buenos Aires, which he undertook in order to learn the geology of the land, so full of bones of large extinct quadrupeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 25 Oct 1833 |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 46c) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-223 |
To W. D. Fox [1 April 1830]
Summary
CD will remain in Cambridge during the whole vacation.
J. F. Stephens has been ill; hence no recent publications.
Has seen a good deal of J. S. Henslow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [1 Apr 1830] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 28) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-79 |
To W. D. Fox [3 November 1829]
Summary
CD’s father has been very ill, but is now slowly improving.
Writes of Leonard Jenyns’ cabinet and J. S. Henslow’s parties.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [3 Nov 1829] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 24) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-74 |
To W. D. Fox 28 August [1837]
Summary
Proof-sheets [of Journal of researches] are tumbling in. Mentions future plans for Zoology and geological works. Has £1000 from Government for illustrations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 28 Aug [1837] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-76) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-374 |
To W. D. Fox 23 May 1833
Summary
He misses society. "I often conjecture what will become of me; my wishes certainly would make me a country clergyman. – You expect sadly more than I shall ever do in Nat. Hist: I am only a sort of Jackall, a lions provider; but I wish I was sure there were lions enough."
Has collected a host of minute beetles, some reptiles, small quadrupeds, and fishes. Invertebrate marine animals are his delight. The pleasure of working with microscope ranks second only to geology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 23 May 1833 |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 46b) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-207 |
To W. D. Fox [7 April 1831]
Summary
CD expects pleasant spring term; will botanise with Henslow.
He is dreaming of going to the Canary Islands for tropical scenery.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [7 Apr 1831] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 39) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-96 |
To W. D. Fox 13 November [1858]
Summary
Has suggested WDF’s name to Hooker and Henslow, who are sending a circular for aid to John Ralfs.
Is working steadily at his abstract, hopes to publish in spring.
Asks if WDF has seen a donkey with double shoulder stripe; also, has he seen a black greyhound with tan feet and a tan spot over each eye? "Such must exist because theory tells me it ought!"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 13 Nov [1858] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 119) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2360 |
To W. D. Fox 19 [September 1831]
Summary
Describes his appointment, the Beagle, his companions, and the objectives of the voyage. Gives his schedule before departure.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 19 [Sept 1831] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-132 |
To W. D. Fox [9 July 1831]
Summary
Poverty keeps him at Shrewsbury.
The Canary scheme still goes, CD is studying Spanish and geology.
Jenyns has started CD on Diptera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [9 July 1831] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 41) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-101 |
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- … Henslow persuaded me to think of Geology & introduced me to Sedgwick. ’ John Maurice Rodwell, writing about CD and their Cambridge days together, remembered talking over Sedgwick’s lectures and CD saying: ‘It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen w d know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching’. Later, speaking of Sedgwick’s speculation about the probable antiquity of the world, CD exclaimed, ‘What a capital hand is Sedgewick for drawing large cheques upon the Bank of Time! ’ (J. …
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