To W. D. Fox 12 December [1868]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Dec. 12th
My dear Fox
I write a line to say that I received safely your letter this morning, & to thank you very much for it.—2 You have told me all that I wished to know most clearly & fully.
If I rceive the other returns promised to me I shall find yours on the sheep & cattle very useful to add to the others.—3
My dear Fox | Yours affectionately | C. Darwin
My work will have to stop a bit for I must prepare a new edit. of that everlasting origin, & I am sick of correcting.—4
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
Summary
Thanks WDF for information about sheep and cattle.
Mentions corrections for new edition of Origin [5th ed. (1869)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6500
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Darwin Fox
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.357)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6500,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6500.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
