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Life and Letters of Charles Darwin Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the Life and Letters of Charles Darwin novel. A total of 123 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin.Volume I.by Charles Darwin.PREFACE In choosing le
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin.Volume I.by Charles Darwin.PREFACE In choosing letters for publication I have been largely guided by the wish to ill.u.s.trate my father's personal character. But his life was so essentially one of work, that a hist
- 23 he goes on to say: "With respect to my former notes to you, I quite forget their contents. I have to write many letters, and can reflect but little on what I write; but I fully believe and hope that I have never written a word, which at the time I did no
- 22 I am writing you a most unmerciful letter, but I shall get Owen to take it to Newcastle. If you have a mind to be a very generous man you will write to me from Kinnordy (The house of Lyell's father.), and tell me some Newcastle news, as well as about the
- 21 I am working at my Journal; it gets on slowly, though I am not idle. I thought Cambridge a bad place from good dinners and other temptations, but I find London no better, and I fear it may grow worse. I have a capital friend in Lyell, and see a great deal
- 20 I do indeed hope all your vexations and trouble with respect to our voyage, which we now know HAS an end, have come to a close. If you do not receive much satisfaction for all the mental and bodily energy you have expended in His Majesty's service, you w
- 19 My dear Catherine, Yours affectionately, CHAS. DARWIN.My best love to my father, and all of you. Love to Nancy.CHARLES DARWIN TO MISS S. DARWIN. Valparaiso, April 23, 1835.My dear Susan, I received, a few days since, your letter of November; the three let
- 18 CHARLES DARWIN TO MISS C. DARWIN. Maldonado, Rio Plata, May 22, 1833....The following business piece is to my father. Having a servant of my own would be a really great addition to my comfort. For these two reasons: as at present the Captain has appointed
- 17 My dear Fox, I have delayed writing to you and all my other friends till I arrived here and had some little spare time. My mind has been, since leaving England, in a perfect HURRICANE of delight and astonishment, and to this hour scarcely a minute has pa.
- 16 Admiral Mellersh, Mr. Hammond, and Mr. Philip King, of the Legislative Council of Sydney, and Mr. Usborne, are among the number. Admiral Johnson died almost at the same time as my father.He retained to the last a most pleasant recollection of the voyage o
- 15 I am now going to Captain Fitz-Roy, and will keep [this] letter open till evening for anything that may occur. I will give you one proof of Fitz-Roy being a good officer--all the officers are the same as before; two-thirds of his crew and [the] eight mari
- 14 Peac.o.c.k has sole appointment of Naturalist. The first person offered was Leonard Jenyns, who was so near accepting it that he packed up his clothes. But having [a] living, he did not think it right to leave it--to the great regret of all his family. He
- 13 Mr. Peac.o.c.k's letter arrived on Sat.u.r.day, and I received it late yesterday evening. As far as my own mind is concerned, I should, I think CERTAINLY, most gladly have accepted the opportunity which you so kindly have offered me. But my father, altho
- 12 When principle came into play, no power on earth could have turned him one hair's-breadth..."Reflecting over his character with grat.i.tude and reverence, his moral attributes rise, as they should do in the highest character, in pre-eminence over his in
- 11 I started from this place about a fortnight ago to take an entomological trip with Mr. Hope through all North Wales; and Barmouth was our first destination. The two first days I went on pretty well, taking several good insects; but for the rest of that we
- 10 Archdeacon Watkins, another old college friend of my father's, remembers him unearthing beetles in the willows between Cambridge and Grantchester, and speaks of a certain beetle the remembrance of whose name is "Crux major." (Panagaeus crux-major.) How
- 9 Besides these portfolios, of which there are some dozens full of notes, there are large bundles of MS. marked "used" and put away. He felt the value of his notes, and had a horror of their destruction by fire. I remember, when some alarm of fire had hap
- 8 "I was more or less ill during the five years between my thirteenth and eighteenth years, and for a long time (years it seems to me) he used to play a couple of games of backgammon with me every afternoon. He played them with the greatest spirit, and I r
- 7 The regular readings, which I have mentioned, continued for so many years, enabled him to get through a great deal of lighter kinds of literature. He was extremely fond of novels, and I remember well the way in which he would antic.i.p.ate the pleasure of
- 6 In spite of his strength and activity, I think he must always have had a clumsiness of movement. He was naturally awkward with his hands, and was unable to draw at all well. (The figure representing the aggregated cell-contents in 'Insectivorous Plants'
- 5 On January 1st, 1860, I began arranging my notes for my work on the 'Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication;' but it was not published until the beginning of 1868; the delay having been caused partly by frequent illnesses, one of which last
- 4 On my return from the voyage of the "Beagle", I explained to him my views on coral-reefs, which differed from his, and I was greatly surprised and encouraged by the vivid interest which he showed. His delight in science was ardent, and he felt the keene
- 3 I have not as yet mentioned a circ.u.mstance which influenced my whole career more than any other. This was my friends.h.i.+p with Professor Henslow. Before coming up to Cambridge, I had heard of him from my brother as a man who knew every branch of scien
- 2 My mother died in July 1817, when I was a little over eight years old, and it is odd that I can remember hardly anything about her except her death-bed, her black velvet gown, and her curiously constructed work-table. In the spring of this same year I was
- 1 The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin.Volume I.by Charles Darwin.PREFACE In choosing letters for publication I have been largely guided by the wish to ill.u.s.trate my father's personal character. But his life was so essentially one of work, that a hist