Sewel, 7 ; Croese

9. Fox, à l'école, « tantum proficicbat ut quaelibet exarata typis, satis, calamo parum légère, at vero eadem repraesentare ac scribere vix aut demum utcumque calleret. Et hxc unica illa scientia quam tota vita est assecutus » (Croese, 19). « Meanwhile he learned to read pretty well and to write so much as would serve him afterwards to signify his meaning to others. » (Sewel, 8.) Le traducteur anglais des Lettres, aux mots 2/ ans, ajoute cette note : « Fox could read at that.age. »