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same ground that he does before autumn comes, and if working 



hard will procure insects I will bring home a glorious stock. 



***** 



My dear Fox, 



Yours most sincerely, 



CHAS. DARWIN. 



C, Darwin to W. D, Fox, 



Shrewsbury, July 18, 1829. 



I am going to Maer next week in order to entomologise, 

 and shall stay there a week, and for the rest of this summer 

 1 intend to lead a perfectly idle and wandering life. . . . 

 You see I am much in the same state that you are, with this 

 difference, you make good resolutions and never keep them ; 

 I never make them, so cannot keep them ; it is all very well 

 writing in this manner, but I must read for my Little-go. 

 Graham smiled and bowed so very civilly, when he told me 

 that he was one of the six appointed to make the examination 

 stricter, and that they were determined this would make it a 

 very different thing from any previous examination, that from 

 all this I am sure it will be the very devil to pay amongst all 

 idle men and entomologists. Erasmus, we expect home in a 

 few weeks' time : he intends passing next winter in Paris. Be 

 sure you order the two lists of insects published by Stephens, 

 one printed on both sides, and the other only on one ; you 

 will find them very useful in many points of view. 



Dear old Fox, yours, 



C. DARWIN. 



C. Darwin to W. D. Fox, 



Christ's College, Thursday [October 16, 1829]. 

 MY DEAR FOX, 



I am afraid you will be very angry with me for not 

 having written during the Music Meeting, but really I was 

 VOL. I. O 



