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To W. D. Fox   7 March [1852]

Summary

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

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Gerard, 2 1 2 years old. According to Emma Darwin’s diary, she and CD, with Henrietta and …
  • … in-law. Emma returned home on 10 April ( Emma Darwin’s diary). Fox was rector of Delamere, …
  • … vol.  5, Appendix I). On 2 April, Emma and Susan Darwin travelled to Barlaston to visit …
  • Emma, that had I been, as I was in old days, I would have been certainly off that hour— You ask after Erasmus; he is much as usual, & constantly more or less unwell. Susan is much better, & very flourishing & happy. Catherine is at Rome & has enjoyed it in a degree that is quite astonishing to my old dry bones. — And now I think I have told you enough & more than enough about the house of Darwin; …

To W. D. Fox   24 [October 1852]

Summary

News of his health; has been well of late, but cannot stand excitement. Hereditary weakness is another of his bugbears.

At work on cirripedes – "I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  24 [Oct 1852]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 81)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1489

Matches: 4 hits

  • … On 25 October 1852, Emma Darwin noted in her diary: ‘Mr Sowerby came’. On 4 November CD …
  • … Correspondence vol.  3, letter to Emma Darwin, [24 June 1846] , n.  2). William Erasmus …
  • … 7 March [1852] . Horace Darwin was born on 13 May 1851 and was Emma’s last child until the …
  • … Susan Darwin, 22–31 July 1833 , for a description of Frances Jane Fox . Several of Emma’s …
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