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To W. D. Fox   [6 October 1859]

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First impressions of the water-cure establishment are not favourable – "I always hate everything new".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  [6 Oct 1859]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 123)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2502

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  • … 24 November 1859 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 15 October [1859] . …

To W. D. Fox   [16 November 1859]

Summary

News of his health and the water-cure establishment.

[Origin] "my weariful book on Species" has been sent to WDF, who will not agree with it. Hooker is a convert, and Lyell is "staggered".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  [16 Nov 1859]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 124)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2533

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  • … Charles Lyell , 25 October [1859] , and to J.  D. Hooker, [27 October or 3 November 1859]. …

To W. D. Fox   23 March [1863]

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Thanks WDF for authentic details of number and colour of lambs [Variation 2: 30].

Complains of his eczema.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  23 Mar [1863]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.292)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4057

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  • 1859 (see Correspondence vol.  7). CD often found an attack of eczema to have an energising effect upon him (see, for example, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, …
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