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To W. D. Fox   7 March [1852]

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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

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  • Darwin travelled to Barlaston to visit Francis (Frank) and Fanny Mosley Wedgwood, Emma’s …
  • Darwin , 10 1 2 years old; Charles Wood d, 5 years old; and Robert Gerard, 2 1 2 years old. According to Emma Darwin’s diary, she and CD, with Henrietta and George, were in Rugby on 24 March when Ernest Hensleigh Wedgwood

To Josiah Wedgwood III   20 November 1852

Summary

A statement of payments made by trustees to CD and by CD to trustees for the years 1851 and 1852.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:  20 Nov 1852
Classmark:  V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1019)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1490

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  • … Josiah Wedgwood III and Erasmus Alvey Darwin were the trustees of Emma Darwin’s trust …
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