From W. D. Fox 22 June [1874]
Summary
Will try to get certain insectivorous plants for CD, especially Utricularia. Is glad to hear he has taken up Drosera.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 June [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 198, 198/2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9507 |
To W. D. Fox 16 [March 1863]
Summary
If WDF should hear what ram was put to the ewes, CD would like to add it [see Variation 2: 30].
Will add "cautiously" that WDF believes white and slate muscovy ducks breed true [Variation 2: 40].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 16 [Mar 1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 137) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4044 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Fox, W. D. …
- … To W. D. Fox 16 [March 1863] …
- … 2: 40. See letter to W. D. Fox, 9 March [1863] , and letter from W. D. Fox, 12 March [ …
- … Letter from W. D. Fox, 12 March [1863] . See letter from W. D. Fox, 12 March [1863] . …
- … Fox’s reply has not been found, but see the letter to W. D. Fox, 23 March [1863] . See also CD’s description of the ram in Variation 2: 30. The letter from Fox to which CD refers has not been found; however, see the letter to W. D. …
From W. D. Fox 29 May [1863]
Summary
Recommends that CD visit Dr MacLeod’s [hydropathic] establishment near Ilkley.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 179 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4193 |
From W. D. Fox 12 March [1863]
Summary
Discusses crossed varieties of sheep and ducks.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 178 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4037 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … let the Public see you. — Kindest regards to M rs Darwin. — Ever yours sincerely | W D Fox …
- … Fox, W. D. Darwin, C. R. …
- … From W. D. Fox 12 March [1863] …
- … Darwin and Caroline Sarah Wedgwood . See also letter from W. D. Fox, 6 February [1863] . …
- … Fox on 13 February (see letter to W. D. Fox, [10 February 1863] , and letter from W. D. …
- … the letter to W. D. Fox, 9 March [1863] . See letter to W. D. Fox, 9 March [1863] and …
- … March [1863] and n. 1. See letter to W. D. Fox, 9 March [1863] and n. 4. CD stayed at …
- … Fox’s father-in-law, Basil George Woodd ; his ‘man’ has not been identified. George Sholto Douglas . CD summarised Fox’s information on the inheritance of colour in sheep in Variation 2: 30–1. The letter in which Fox originally provided information on these subjects has not been found; however, see the letter to W. D. Fox, …
From W. D. Fox [11 February 1863]
Summary
Plans to meet CD in town.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 177 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3979 |
To W. D. Fox 23 March [1863]
Summary
Thanks WDF for authentic details of number and colour of lambs [Variation 2: 30].
Complains of his eczema.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 23 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.292) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4057 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Fox, W. D. …
- … To W. D. Fox 23 March [1863] …
- … this letter and the letters from W. D. Fox, 12 March [1863] , and to W. D. Fox, 16 [ …
- … Fox’s letter has not been found; however, see letters to W. D. Fox, 9 March [1863] and 16 [March 1863] , and letter from W. D. …
- … W. D. Fox, 9 March [1863] and n. 1. CD refers to James Manby Gully’s hydropathic establishment in Great Malvern, Worcestershire (see letter to W. D. …
From W. D. Fox 18 [November 1870]
Summary
Has heard "sad tales" about CD’s forthcoming book [Descent]; does not think even CD can persuade him his ancestors were apes.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 [Nov 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 192 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7376 |
From W. D. Fox 5 [May 1864]
Summary
Would like to come to Down to visit.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 [May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 181 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4484 |
From W. D. Fox 19 May [1868]
Summary
Regrets he cannot get to Down.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 May [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 187 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6187 |
From W. D. Fox 9 December [1868]
Summary
Hybrid geese.
Proportions of sexes in sheep and cattle.
Pairing habits of crows.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Dec [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 126–7, DAR 85: B36–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6455 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Fox, W. D. Darwin, C. R. …
- … to M rs & Miss Darwin | Ever yours, W D Fox Dec r 9. 1.1 Very … nearly equal. 6.3] …
- … From W. D. Fox 9 December [1868] …
- … Fox, 4 November 1868 . See letter to W. D. Fox, 4 November 1868 . See letter from W. D. …
- … Fox’s other informant on the subject, see the letter from W. D. Fox, 29 October [1868] , and the letter to W. D. …
- … Fox , lived in Hillfield, Hampstead. Ellen Sophia Fox had two sisters still living, Maria Jane Nevinson and Louisa Gertrude Walker . The doctor Fox refers to has not been identified, but for more on Fox’s recent health problems, see the letter from W. D. Fox, …
- … Fox, 29 October [1868] . The rook ( Corvus frugilegus ), carrion crow ( C. corone ), and magpie ( Pica pica ) are all members of the family Corvidae. See letter to W. D. Fox, …
From W. D. Fox 6 February [1863]
Summary
Hopes they might meet as WDF has to come to town.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 176 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3970 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Fox, W. D. Darwin, C. R. …
- … Darwin—from your old friend & cousin | W D Fox M r Woodds | Hillfield | Hampstead | NW | …
- … From W. D. Fox 6 February [1863] …
- … Fox in London on 13 February 1863 (see letter to W. D. Fox, [10 February 1863] , and letter from W. D. …
- … Fox’s time at Oxford University (see n. 5, below). See Correspondence vol. 10, letter to W. D. Fox, …
From W. D. Fox 7 September [1863]
Summary
Gives directions to CD’s daughter’s [Anne’s] grave.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 180 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4296 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Fox, W. D. Darwin, C. R. …
- … give Malvern a fair chance— Our kindest regards to M rs Darwin | Yours ever | W D Fox …
- … From W. D. Fox 7 September [1863] …
- … letter to W. D. Fox, 4 [September 1863] . Letter to W. D. Fox, 4 [September 1863] . CD …
- … Fox that Emma Darwin had been unable to find the gravestone of their daughter Anne Elizabeth, who had died at Great Malvern in 1851, and that they feared it had been stolen. Ellen Sophia Fox . No reference has been found to Fox’s visit to Great Malvern in 1859; however, see the letter to W. D. Fox, …
From W. D. Fox [1 June 1846]
Summary
Hybrid geese.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 June 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.7: 280 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-588 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … a cousin & Believe me— Ever yours affec ly W D Fox Verso of note : ‘Subsequently Fox tells …
- … Fox, W. D. Darwin, C. R. …
- … From W. D. Fox [1 June 1846] …
- … by a slip in DAR 205.7 (2): 209, headed ‘W. D. Fox, 1 June 1846’, in which CD noted the …
- … W. D. Fox, [ c . November 1838]. In his species book, in a discussion of the hybrids of different breeds of geese, CD stated that ‘the Rev W. D. …
From W. D. Fox 29 October [1868]
Summary
Thanks CD for a recent letter.
Reports on his health, which has been bad for 12 months.
Sends extracts of works on domestication.
Discusses the pairing of various birds; comments on the pugnacity of partridges, pheasants, male guinea-fowl, and peacocks.
Gives proportions of sexes in pheasants.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Oct [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 189; DAR 193: 112; DAR 83: 187, DAR 84.1: 128–30, DAR 86: A87–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6436 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … Fox, W. D. Darwin, C. R. …
- … have been common yews. ” 32 years since W D Fox brought berries from D r Darwin’s hedge; …
- … a fine copper Beech. 3 years since when W D Fox was there—he found about half of the young …
- … From W. D. Fox 29 October [1868] …
- … variety. M rs Fox says that it illustrates Darwin—& finding that Ducks w d not do any good …
- … Sophia Fox . See letter to W. D. Fox, 21 October [1868] ; see also letter from W. D. …
- … Fox, 9 December [ 1868] . See letter from W. D. Fox, [before 14 May 1868] and n. 5. …
- … Letter to W. D. Fox, 21 October [1868] . See also letter from W. D. Fox, 3 February [ …
- … CD cited Fox for this information in Descent 1: 270. See letter from W. D. Fox, [before …
- … Fox’s information, crediting a ‘clergy-man, who has bred many pigs’. Nothing on wolves was found in October 1868 issues of the Field. On the recent successes of Leonard Darwin and George Howard Darwin , see the letter to W. D. Fox, …
- … W. D. Fox, 14 May [1868] . CD referred to the celebration of the ‘great magpie marriage’ in Descent 2: 102; he cited Fox as the source of information on magpies in Delamere Forest. See letter from W. D. …
From W. D. Fox 11 June [1858]
Summary
Discusses instinct in ducks and turkeys.
Reports a case of the inheritance of an acquired characteristic in a pig.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 June [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 194 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7815 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Fox, W. D. Darwin, C. R. …
- … possibly abt 5 or 6 th . Ever yours W D Fox crossed pencil 3.0 (of the same Parents)] …
- … From W. D. Fox 11 June [1858] …
- … Dated by the relationship to the letter to W. D. Fox, 27 [June 1858] . Lane 1857 . CD …
- … W. D. Fox, 8 May [1858] . Fox intended to frighten the turkey chicks with a paper kite. See letters to W. D. …
- … Fox refers also to her sisters Emma Elizabeth Wilmot , Violetta Harriot Darwin , and Millicent Susan Darwin . The Wilmot family had purchased Osmaston Hall, Fox’s childhood home, from Fox’s parents. Syndope Hall, near Matlock in Derbyshire, was the seat of F. S. Darwin. See letter to W. D. Fox, …
From W. D. Fox [16–22 May 1863]
Summary
A "quiz" on CD has appeared in the Illustrated Times [2 May 1863, p. 317].
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [16–22 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 175 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4178 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Fox, W. D. Darwin, C. R. …
- … near Kew— am I right. With kindest regards to M rs Darwin | Ever your aff Cousin | W D Fox …
- … From W. D. Fox [16–22 May 1863] …
- … letter to W. D. Fox, 23 May [1863] . See letter to W. D. Fox, 23 March [1863] . Fox …
- … hydropathic treatment (see letters to W. D. Fox, 9 March [1863] and 16 [March 1863] ). …
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [29 September 1863]
Summary
Thanks to WDF’s directions, Anne’s tombstone has been found.
CD improved, but recovery is slow. She describes treatment.
Encloses paper she and CD have written [see 4294, which was wrongly addressed by ED and had not reached WDF].
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [29 Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (Fox 141) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4312 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma Fox, W. D. …
- … From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [29 September 1863] …
- … see letter to W. D. Fox, 4 [September 1863] , and letter from W. D. Fox, 7 September [ …
- … 1863. See letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [6–27 September 1863] . The enclosure …
- … See letter from W. D. Fox, 7 September [1863] . Emma had been unable to locate in the …
- … Fox had been treated at Great Malvern on previous occasions, had been seriously ill (see Browne 1990 and letter from W. D. Fox, [ …
From W. D. Fox 28 October [1870]
Summary
Has heard of CD’s forthcoming book [Descent] from J. D. Hooker.
Leaves next week for winter quarters in Sandown.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 191 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7353 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Fox, W. D. Darwin, C. R. …
- … From W. D. Fox 28 October [1870] …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter to W. D. Fox, 15 November [1870] . …
- … Fox and CD is the letter to W. D. Fox, 18 February [1870] . The references are to Joseph Dalton Hooker and Descent. Correspondence between Emma Darwin and W. D. …
- … Fox’s Father at Hampstead. Should you, by any accident be in London about that time I should greatly enjoy five minutes intercourse with you. Tell M rs Darwin, with our kindest regards, to reply to this letter, and Believe my old & much valued Friend to remain Yours always | W. D Fox …
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: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Fox, W. D. …
- … To W. D. Fox 4 [September 1863] …
- … see letter from W. D. Fox, [16–22 May 1863] , and letter to W. D. Fox, 23 May [1863] ). …
- … see letters from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863] and 8 December [1863] ). …
- … letter to W. D. Fox, 3 October [1856] . See also letter from W. D. Fox, 7 September [ …
To W. D. Fox 29 [July 1853]
Summary
Sympathises with WDF’s tribulations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 29 [July 1853] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 83) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1526 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Fox, W. D. …
- … To W. D. Fox 29 [July 1853] …
- … is incorrect. ) Letter to W. D. Fox, 17 July [1853] . See letter to W. D. Fox, 17 July [ …
- … Fox family and the serious illness of Fox’s daughter Louisa Mary. Louisa Mary Fox , born 28 December 1850, died 29 July 1853. (The editors thank Anthony W. D. Larkum for supplying them with a copy of Louisa Mary Fox’ …
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