From Charles Wicksted to Georgina Tollet1 13 March [1870?]2
Shakenhurst, Bewdley.
March 13th.
My Dearest Georgina,
I have submitted Charles Darwin’s questions about Foxes to a jury of fox-hunters assembled here, on the occasion of the Ludlow Fox hounds having met here yesterday, & their experiences quite agree with mine— Neither I nor any of them can remember ever having seen a hound catch hold of a fox by the brush, or ever seen the common movement (of a dog (that puts his tail between his legs when frightened) performed by a fox either in a tame3
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Summary
Jury of fox-hunters report on hounds’ behaviour when catching fox. Fox never behaves like frightened dog.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13857
- From
- Charles Wicksted
- To
- Georgina Tollet
- Sent from
- Strakenhurst, Bewdley
- Source of text
- DAR 181: 97
- Physical description
- †(by CD)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13857,” accessed on 21 April 2018, http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/DCP-LETT-13857
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18