To W. D. Fox 29 [July 1853]
13. Sea Houses | Eastbourne
29th.
My dear Fox
Susan has forwarded your letter to her, here.— What a fearful state you have been, & indeed, I fear, still are in.— I hardly ever heard of anyone having passed through a worse ordeal.1 I am deeply rejoiced that your health has as yet stood it. How earnestly both Emma & I hope that your poor little girl may be spared.—2 I write this chiefly to show that I have heard about you.
I am so sorry I sent off my former letter on indifferent subjects to you.—3 But the case has been incomparably worse than I dreamed of. I did not even know how completely the two poor Boys had been domesticated with you.—4 You have our deepest sympathy.
My dear Fox | Very affectionately yours | C. Darwin.
In some weeks or months to come, perhaps you will write to me.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Darwin pedigree: Pedigree of the family of Darwin. Compiled by H. Farnham Burke. N.p.: privately printed. 1888. [Reprinted in facsimile in Darwin pedigrees, by Richard Broke Freeman. London: printed for the author. 1984.]
Summary
Sympathises with WDF’s tribulations.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1526
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Darwin Fox
- Sent from
- Eastbourne
- Source of text
- Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 83)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1526,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1526.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5
