To W. D. Fox 10 August [1853]
Summary
Thanks WDF for writing so soon after his misfortunes, and again expresses sympathy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 10 Aug [1853] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 85) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1527 |
To W. D. Fox 23 March [1842]
Summary
Letter of condolence on the death of WDF’s wife [Harriet Fletcher Fox].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 23 Mar [1842] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 57) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-624 |
To W. D. Fox [31 March 1842]
Summary
Second letter of condolence, following burial of Mrs Fox.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [31 Mar 1842] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 56) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-625 |
To W. D. Fox [9 December 1842]
Summary
CD likes Down House, describes countryside.
Tells of Edward Charlesworth fracas at Geological Society.
Is at work on Volcanic islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [9 Dec 1842] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 64) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-654 |
To W. D. Fox [before 3 October 1846]
Summary
The potato seeds were collected in 1835 from tubers in a remote area of the Cordilleras of Chile and were certainly wild. Refers him to Journal [of researches, p. 347].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [before 3 Oct 1846] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 107) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13809 |
Fletcher, Harriet (1799–1842)
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- … 1842 Daughter of Sir Richard Fletcher. Married William Darwin Fox in 1834. Darwin pedigree . Bibliography Darwin pedigree : Pedigree of the family of Darwin. Compiled by H. Farnham Burke. N.p. : privately printed. 1888. [Reprinted in facsimile in Darwin pedigrees , by Richard Broke Freeman. London: printed for the author. 1984. ] 1,2,3,12,13 Fletcher, Richard Fox, W. D. …
To W. D. Fox 24 October [1839]
Summary
Hopes to publish volume on coral formations in a few months.
He and Emma live quietly, having given up parties.
Asks WDF if he remembers the Darwin family motto. He means to have a "seal solemnly engraved".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 24 Oct [1839] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 58) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-541 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [19 December 1875]
Summary
CD’s attempts to get support for Lankester among Fellows of the Linnean Society. He has encountered opposition to the Council.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | [19 Dec 1875] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 52–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10308 |
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 2 February [1855]
Summary
The only mainland vegetation he saw on Falkland Island shores were trees. Remembers no strange birds there, but on journey home saw a woodcock more than 500 miles from the nearest land.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Feb [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 251 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1551 |
To Charles Lyell 14 August [1863]
Summary
Congratulates CL on finding Arctic shells.
Comments on paper by E. B. Hunt ["On the origin, growth, substructure and chronology of the Florida reef", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 197–210].
Mentions J. D. Dana’s health.
George Bentham’s statement on species [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1863): xi–xxix].
Praises Bates’s book [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 14 Aug [1863] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.296) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4267 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Fox, W. D. | (6) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
