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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 |
To W. D. Fox 8 February [1857]
Summary
Birth of his sixth son [C. W. Darwin]. It is dreadful "to think of all the sendings to school and the professions afterwards".
CD is not well but has not the courage for water-cure again; trying mineral acids.
Working hard on the book [Natural selection]; is overwhelmed with riches in facts and interested in way facts fall into groups.
To his surprise [Helix pomatia] has withstood 14 days in salt water.
Pigeons’ skins come in from all parts of the world.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 8 Feb [1857] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 110) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2049 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … J. D. Hooker, 3 February [1850]). Fox had twelve children in all, five by his first marriage and seven by his second. Of these, four were boys. An allusion to the advanced stage of Ellen Sophia Fox’s pregnancy. Edith Darwin Fox was born on 13 February 1857 ( …
- … J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1856] , and letter from T. V. Wollaston, [11 or 18 December 1856] . On 22 January, after one of the Helices provided by Thomas Vernon Wollaston had survived the effects of immersion in salt water, CD began a new experiment with Helix pomatia and H. aspersa . In his Experimental book, p. 16 (DAR 157a), CD recorded on 5 February 1857 …
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| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. |
