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Article: Charles Darwin: The 'Beagle' Letters.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- January 31, 2009
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Charles Darwin: The 'Beagle' Letters
Frederick Burkhardt, editor
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Charles Darwin was a prolific letter writer--not unusual in his day, of course, before telephones, e-mail and Facebook. A little less usual is the degree to which his correspondence has been preserved, and so widely read.
Darwin died in 1882, and collecting and assessing Darwinabilia has been a passion for historians of both science and culture ever since. The bicentennial of Darwin's birth has inspired renewed attention and new collections--in this case, a thorough catalog of the letters written by and to Darwin shortly before and during his famous ...