From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6 May 1864]
Summary
CD has been so ill they must discourage visit by WDF. Recovering slowly with new treatment.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [6 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 143) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4487 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … CD and Fox met on 13 February (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from W. D. Fox, [ …
- … W. D. Fox, 5 [May 1864] . The Darwin family spent from 3 September to 12 or 13 October 1863 at Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, where CD and Horace Darwin took the water cure at the hydropathic establishment of James Smith Ayerst (see Correspondence vol. 11, …
- … 11 February 1863] ). On the course of treatment prescribed by Jenner, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] and n. 6. Fox had taken a keen interest in CD’s health for many years (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 4, letter to W. D. …
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox 8 December [1863]
Summary
Thanks WDF for his letter [on steel traps].
Gives a better report of CD’s health since he gave up water-cure.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 8 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 142) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4355 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863] . See also letter From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [7 December 1863] , n. 11. …
- … 11, Appendix II)). CD had formerly received hydropathic treatment from James Manby Gully at Great Malvern, Worcestershire, but was treated on this occasion by Ayerst, presumably on the recommendation of Gully, owing to Gully’s own ill health (see letter from W. D. Fox, [16–22 May 1863] , and letters to W. D. …
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox 16 May [1864]
Summary
Urges WDF to send trap he has invented to the exhibition and competition of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Advertisement of Brailsford’s Patent Vermin Trap enclosed.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 16 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 144) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4497 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11, Appendix IX. See enclosure. No letter from Fox mentioning a way of taking chalk has been found. CD had begun taking chalk for his stomach in March 1864 as part of a course of treatment prescribed by William Jenner (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] and n. 6, and letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. …
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [7 December 1863]
Summary
CD too ill to write.
Has evidence of long life of seed transported on a partridge’s foot.
Sends a squib by Samuel Butler on the Origin.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [7 Dec 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 215 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4351 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 November 1863 ). CD’s comment suggests that Charles Paget Hooker had also fallen ill. Following the publication and distribution of an appeal against the use of steel traps to control vermin, Emma organised the raising of subscriptions to fund a competition for the design of a humane trap under the auspices of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [ …
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Darwin, Emma | (4) |
| Wedgwood, Emma |
Addressee
| Fox, W. D. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, Emma | (4) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (4) |
| Fox, W. D. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
