To W. D. Fox [10 February 1863]
Summary
Invites WDF to Down.
His stomach now so bad he cannot stay, even with close relations, for more than half an hour at a time.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [10 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 136) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3975 |
To W. D. Fox 9 March [1863]
Summary
Has quoted WDF on crossing white and slate muscovy ducks [Variation 2: 40]. When not crossed, do these breed true?
Will also quote him on Mr Woodd’s white ewes that produced black lambs by a ram with only black spots [Variation 2: 30].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 9 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 138) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4033 |
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 |
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 |
To W. D. Fox 23 May [1863]
Summary
Health has been poor but eczema is improved.
A "squib" about Owen and Huxley on the brain has appeared in Public Opinion [3 (1863): 497–8].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 23 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 139) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4181 |
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 |
