To W. D. Fox 23 September [1859]
Summary
His book [Origin] is nearly done. Is not so silly as to expect to convert WDF. Lyell is wavering; Hooker has come round.
Family news.
Asks WDF to find out if a cross between differently coloured horses produces a dun.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1859] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 122) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2493 |
To W. D. Fox [6 October 1859]
Summary
First impressions of the water-cure establishment are not favourable – "I always hate everything new".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [6 Oct 1859] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 123) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2502 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 September [1859] . Edmund Smith was the proprietor of Ilkley Wells ( Metcalfe 1906 ,p. 107). Homoeopathy, the treatment of disease with minute doses of materials that cause symptoms identical to those of the disease itself, was favoured by several hydropathic doctors including James Manby Gully of Malvern, under whom CD had placed himself in 1849 (see Correspondence vol. 4, letters to Susan Darwin, [19 March 1849] , and to W. D. Fox, …
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| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
