The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
Volume 30. 1882
Part of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
- Real Author: Charles Darwin
- Editors:
- Frederick Burkhardt, American American Council of Learned Societies
- James A. Secord, University of Cambridge
- The Editors of the Darwin Correspondence Project, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: January 2023
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009233590
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This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically. Darwin died in April 1882, but was active in science almost up until the end, raising new research questions and responding to letters about his last book, on earthworms. The volume also contains a supplement of nearly 400 letters written between 1831 and 1880, many of which have never been published before.
Read more- The narrative introduction provides a compact but highly readable account of Darwin's life in 1882, and a review of the supplement of nearly 400 earlier letters
- Complete transcriptions of more than 200 letters Darwin wrote and received in the year 1882, and a supplement of nearly 400 letters written between 1831 and 1880, are of immense value to researchers across a range of disciplines, providing for the first time primary materials on this period of Darwin's life and work
- Clear and concise explanatory notes make the material accessible to both scholars and general readers
- A biographical register provides brief biographical notes for people mentioned in the letters
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'Like its predecessors, this volume of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin reads like a novel in the vividness of its characters and the immediacy of their daily lives …' Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books
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- Date Published: January 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009233590
- length: 766 pages
- dimensions: 240 x 164 x 48 mm
- weight: 1.3kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Letters
Introduction
Acknowledgments
List of Provenances
Note on Editorial Policy
Darwin/Wedgwood Genealogy
Abbreviations and Symbols
The Correspondence
Supplement to the Correspondence, 1831–80
Appendixes:
1. Translations
2. Chronology
3. Darwin's Funeral
Manuscript Alterations and Comments
Corrigenda
Chronological List of Letters in Supplements
Biographical Register and Index to Correspondents
Bibliography
Notes on Manuscript Sources
Index.
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