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Darwin’s reading notebooks

Summary

In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…

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  • … [Wellesley 1832] Sir. W. Nott’s Life [W. Nott 1854].— [DAR *119: 15v.] From …
  • … 1809]— references at end of each Chap. June 1. King & FitzRoy’s Voyages [King 1839 and …
  • … 1811]. Rich d . 2 d . poor. Henry IV [Shakespeare:  King Richard II ;  King Henry IV ] …
  • … Lear [Shakespeare:  Julius Caesar ;  Coriolanus ;  King Lear ] Sept. 26 Shelleys Essays …
  • … March 24 th  Kings & Lay’s Missionary Voyage [King and Lay 1839] —— B. Hall’s Schloss …
  • … de la Boheme [Barrande 1852–1911] must be deeply studied 1854 The Zoologist by E. Newman [ …
  • … [Pepys 1825] (Read).— Sir W. Notts life [W. Nott 1854] read [DAR *128: 177] …
  • … r . Nott & Gliddon: Trübner & Co [J. C. Nott and Gliddon 1854] (read) A Lecture by …
  • … not published but reported fully in Literary Gazette Sept 30 1854 91 Agricult. Journal …
  • … Belon Hist de la nature des Oiseaux 1555 [Belon 1555] p 264 Quails at sea with seeds.— See for …
  • … [W. Nott 1854] (good) Sept Private life of an E. King [Knighton] 1855]. (good) Dec 13 …

Darwin and Down

Summary

Charles and Emma Darwin, with their first two children, settled at Down House in the village of Down (later ‘Downe’) in Kent, as a young family in 1842.   The house came with eighteen acres of land, and a fifteen acre meadow.  The village combined the…

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  • … his sister, Catherine Darwin,  [24 July 1842] To P. G. King,  21 February 1854 : ‘I live …