From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6–27 September 1863]1
Malvern Wells
Sunday.
Dear Mr Fox
I have been sending out a good many of these papers & have been very much surprized & pleased to find that a good many persons Squires Ladies & MPs are interested in the matter & anxious to find a remedy.2
Charles recommends me to send one to you & to beg you to send one to Mr Wilmot (Sir F’s son in law)3 I send one or two more in hopes that you or Mrs Fox4 may approve of them & use them in some way.
With my very kind remembrances to her I am yours | very sincerely | E. Darwin
Several have suggested offering a prize for a humane trap—5
Footnotes
Bibliography
An appeal: An appeal. [By Charles and Emma Darwin.] [Bromley, Kent]: [privately printed.] [1863.]
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
Encloses a four-page printed pamphlet on the cruelty of steel traps [see Collected papers 2: 83–4].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4294
- From
- Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin
- To
- William Darwin Fox
- Sent from
- Malvern Wells
- Source of text
- Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 142a)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp, encl 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4294,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4294.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11
