The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
Volume 2. 1837–1843
Part of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
- Real Author: Charles Darwin
- Editors:
- Frederick Burkhardt, American Council of Learned Societies
- Sydney Smith, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: March 1987
- availability: In stock
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521255882
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This is the second volume of the complete edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. For the first time full authoritative texts of Darwin's letters are available, edited according to modern textual editorial principles and practice. The letters in this volume were written during the seven years following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage. It was a period of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional man with official responsibilities in several scientific organisations. During these years he published two books and fifteen papers and also organised and superintended the publication of the Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle, for which he described the locations of the fossils and the habitats and behaviour of the living species he had collected. Busy as he was with scientific activities, Darwin found time to re-establish family ties and friendships, and to make new friends among the naturalists with whom his work brought him into close contact. In November 1838, two years after his return Darwin became engaged to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, whom he subsequently married.
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- Date Published: March 1987
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521255882
- length: 646 pages
- dimensions: 243 x 167 x 40 mm
- weight: 1.06kg
- availability: In stock
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, 1837–43
Appendixes
Manuscript alterations and comments
Bibliography
Biography
Biographical register and index to correspondents
Index.
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