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To W. D. Fox   [27 March 1851]

Summary

Sends condolences to WDF on the death of his father. Has brought his daughter [Anne] to J. M. Gully for the water-cure.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  [27 Mar 1851]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 78a)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1396

Matches: 6 hits

  • … and governess, Catharine Ann Thorley , and with Henrietta Emma Darwin as a playmate. …
  • … According to Emma Darwin’s diary, Miss Thorley left for Malvern on 28 March. CD …
  • … return to Down until 31 March ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 130 and ‘Journal’; Correspondence …
  • … by Richard Broke Freeman. London: printed for the author. 1984. ] Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
  • … failing since the summer of 1850 ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 132), was to be left in Malvern …

To W. D. Fox   10 October [1850]

Summary

Is concerned about the education of his boys and is undecided between Rugby and Bruce Castle schools; is inclined toward the latter, but afraid to experiment on so important a subject.

Reports on his pear-trees.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  10 Oct [1850]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 78)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1362

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Rev d . — Willy School 74 3 6. ’ Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 145, notes that Wharton was …
  • … preparatory school that William attended. Emma Darwin’s diary records that ‘Willy went to …
  • … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …

To W. D. Fox   29 April [1851]

Summary

His favourite child, Anne, has unexpectedly died.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  29 Apr [1851]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 79)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1425

Matches: 4 hits

  • … to my knowledge, spoke of her. ’ ( ’ (Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 137). For an analysis of the …
  • … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
  • Emma could not possibly join me in nursing our darling: she almost daily expects her confinement. I have not yet thanked you for your most kind & interesting letter of the 10 th . I most truly hope that your health is better. Yours affectionately | C.  Darwin

To W. D. Fox    [7 January 1829]

Summary

Entomological news, his poor success in collecting, observation of chrysalis.

Commiserates with WDF in his dismal pre-examination state.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  [7 Jan 1829]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 8a)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-55

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Bibliography Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
  • … CD’s ‘gyp’ (college servant). See Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 166. Possibly Benjamin Chapman , a …

To W. D. Fox   [25 January 1841]

Summary

Birds has gone to the printer.

Continues "to collect all kinds of facts about ""varieties and species"" " for his "some-day work".

Would be grateful for descriptions of offspring of crossbred domestic animals.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  [25 Jan 1841]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 59)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-586

Matches: 4 hits

  • … W.  D. Fox, [ 11 December 1837] , and Emma Darwin (1915) 1: 257–8, 285–6). Fox then lived …
  • … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
  • Darwin is something wonderful. —but I will say nothing more about health, & as a consequence I must say nothing more about any of my Family— I will just add that Emma

To W. D. Fox    26 [August 1829]

Summary

If convenient, CD will visit WDF at Osmaston early in September. Went to Barmouth with his sisters.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  26 [Aug 1829]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 20)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-70

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Besterman, Theodore. 1969. Voltaire. London and Harlow: Longmans. Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
  • … The John Wedgwood s (see Emma Darwin (1915) 1: 215). Jessie Sismondi, wife of the …

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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … My dear Fox | Yours affectionately | C.  Darwin Emma desires her very kind remembrances. …
  • … from Moor Park on 31 October 1857 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 30  …

To W. D. Fox   2 December 1877

Summary

Working hard on physiology of plants.

His son George sees no reason to change his view on marriage of cousins.

George’s astronomical work is too deep for CD.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  2 Dec 1877
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 155)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11266

Matches: 4 hits

  • … his knee playing tennis ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [23 September …
  • … Sara Sedgwick on 29 November 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD had recently …
  • … 8 to 13 June 1877 (CD’s ‘ Journal’ (Appendix II)). Emma Darwin had reported that Caroline …
  • … was frequently unwell ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [11 June 1877] (DAR …

To W. D. Fox   [12 February 1859]

Summary

Undergoing hydropathic treatment for his old ailment.

The "Abstract" [Origin] is the cause. Only two chapters to do.

His satisfaction that he believes he has convinced Hooker and Huxley and staggered Lyell.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  [12 Feb 1859]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 106)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2412

Matches: 3 hits

  • … 1906 , p.  56). Charlotte Langton was Emma Darwin’s sister. She and her husband Charles …
  • … lived at Hartfield Lodge, Hartfield, Sussex. Henrietta Emma Darwin had been ill …
  • … for much of January ( Emma Darwin’s diary). See letter to W.  E. Darwin, 15 [October …

To W. D. Fox   6 July [1858]

Summary

The crisis is abating – no further scarlet fever in the family.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  6 July [1858]
Classmark:  University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-73)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2304

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Waring Darwin had died on 28 June 1858. Emma Darwin’s diary records that on 4 July 1858 ‘ …
  • … been engaged as governess to the Darwin children in April 1857. CD and Emma Darwin took …
  • … Henrietta Emma Darwin to Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood’s house in Hartfield on 9 July 1858 and …

To W. D. Fox   16 July [1872]

Summary

Is correcting proofs for Expression.

Family news.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  16 July [1872]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8413

Matches: 3 hits

  • … probably accompanied by Horace Darwin , although Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) indicates …
  • … for Malvern Water-cure. ’ Henrietta Emma Darwin had married Richard Buckley Litchfield on …
  • … had visited Down between 6 and 9 July ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD also refers to …

To W. D. Fox   26 May [1876]

Summary

Caroline [Wedgwood] has been ill for the last 20 months.

James Paget to be consulted about William Darwin’s brain concussion.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  26 May [1876]
Classmark:  University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-11)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10515

Matches: 3 hits

  • … CD and Emma Darwin visited Hopedene, Holmbury St Mary, Surrey, home of Hensleigh …
  • … Correspondence vol. 23, letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 1 September [1875? ] and …
  • … s riding accident happened on 10 May ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); James Paget had also …

To W. D. Fox   1 September [1873]

Summary

Has been in bed for some days with ugly head symptoms. "We are a poor lot."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  1 Sept [1873]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 152)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9040

Matches: 4 hits

  • … barrister (see ODNB ; his decision is recorded in the letter from Emma Darwin to H.  E.   …
  • … DAR 219.9: 101), and the letter from Emma Darwin to Horace Darwin, [25 April 1873] (DAR …
  • … and ‘sinking fits’ on 26 August 1873 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). See letter from …
  • Darwin My son George is better, but he has been compelled to give up his profession. — Emma

To W. D. Fox   [20 November 1843]

Summary

Family news and their quiet life at Down.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  [20 Nov 1843]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 68)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-715

Matches: 2 hits

  • … According to Emma Darwin’s diary, ‘Mr Fox came’ on 27 May 1843 (DAR 242). Charles Bulkeley …
  • … such a good little soul—as Miss Henrietta Emma Darwin— she is beginning to smile & be very …

To W. D. Fox   4 [September 1863]

Summary

His bad health has caused him to return to Malvern.

Emma cannot find the gravestone of their child, Anne. Asks WDF whether he can remember its location.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  4 [Sept 1863]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 140)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4292

Matches: 6 hits

  • … According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD arrived in Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, …
  • … at Great Malvern in DAR 210.13: 39. Emma Darwin was at the time pregnant with Horace, who …
  • … at Ayerst’s establishment (see letters from Emma Darwin to W.  D.  Fox, [29 September  …
  • … According to her diary (DAR 242), Emma Darwin travelled to Great Malvern on 1 September  …
  • Emma hourly expecting her confinement that I went home & did not see the grave. It is not likely, but will you tell us what you can remember about the kind of stone & where it stood; I think you said there was a little tree planted. We want, of course, to put another stone. I know your great & true kindness will forgive this trouble. Your affect | C.  Darwin
  • Darwins’ eldest daughter, died at Great Malvern on 23 April 1851 (see Correspondence vol.  5). This individual has not been identified. Fox’s letter has not been found, but see Correspondence vol.  6, letter to W.  D.  Fox, 3 October [1856] . See also letter from W.  D. Fox, 7 September [1863] . CD had left Great Malvern on 24 April 1851, before Anne’s burial, which was arranged by Frances Emma

To W. D. Fox   23 May [1855]

Summary

He may insert his request for lizards’ eggs in Gardeners’ Chronicle.

His study of mongrel chicks is to ascertain whether the young of domestic breeds differ as much as their parents.

Has already sent a communication on means of distribution of plants by sea to Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 255–8].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  23 May [1855]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 92)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1686

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Fox, 19 March [1855] , n.  5). On 19 June, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary: ‘W.  came to …
  • … of an unknown, x , using the formula: a is to b as c is to x . Henrietta Emma Darwin . …
  • … According to Emma Darwin’s diary, they heard of William’s illness (which began on 18 May) …

To W. D. Fox   27 [June 1858]

Summary

Profoundly sorry for Lane.

Thanks WDF for facts about call ducks, pigs, and Leicester sheep.

Has been observing and experimenting on the construction of bees’ cells. Thinks he has a theory which simplifies the problem.

Scarlet fever in family; nurse ill.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  27 [June 1858]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 115)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2296

Matches: 3 hits

  • … B. Tegetmeier, 9 May [1858] and 8 [June 1858] . Henrietta Emma Darwin was taken ill with …
  • … diphtheria on 18 June 1858 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). See letter to J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, 23 [June 1858] . Emma Darwin’s diary records that on 26 June 1858, three days …

To W. D. Fox   18 October [1860]

Summary

The hybrid case is most curious, if true. So many have tried to get hybrids from hare and rabbit.

Has done little regular work – correspondence on Origin has been gigantic.

Has amused himself working on power of Drosera to catch flies.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  18 Oct [1860]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 130)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2953

Matches: 3 hits

  • … 105 n.  7. The Darwins took Henrietta Emma Darwin to Eastbourne on 22 September 1860  to …
  • … following a long illness (‘Journal’; Appendix II). In a letter from Emma Darwin to …
  • … William Erasmus Darwin probably written in September 1860 (DAR 210.6), Emma said of …

To W. D. Fox   18 February [1870]

Summary

Invites WDF to visit.

Describes activities of his children.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  18 Feb [1870]
Classmark:  Isle of Wight Record Office (Ac 2008/79)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7113

Matches: 2 hits

  • … was Rolla Charles Meadows Rouse . Henrietta Emma Darwin was by this time in Italy ( letter …
  • … from H.  E.  Darwin to Emma Darwin, 1 February [1870] (DAR 245: 31)). CD also refers to …

To W. D. Fox   21 October [1868]

Summary

Reminds WDF to write about the "great magpie marriage". Sexual selection an "everlasting subject".

News of his children.

Asks for information on instances of sexual preference in animals and data on numbers of males and females born in various domesticated species.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  21 Oct [1868]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 149); DAR 266
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6426

Matches: 3 hits

  • … from 17 July to 20 August 1868 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD refers to George …
  • … letter to Horace Darwin, 26 [July 1868] and n.  2). According to Emma Darwin’s diary ( …
  • … DAR 242) Henrietta Emma Darwin went abroad on 31 August 1868. CD refers to Francis …
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