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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Footnotes
Bibliography
Burke’s landed gentry: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but unvisited with heritable honours. Burke’s genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry. By John Burke et al. 1st–18th edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1833–1969.
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
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
- AL inc † (by CD)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13857,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13857.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18