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Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts

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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of  Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…

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  • … have understood … I always thought individual differences [i.e., differences between individuals] …
  • … so well whole classes of facts in distribution, that I must joyfully accept it; indeed I go so far …
  • … same letter to Croll, Darwin had expressed another worry: ‘I am greatly troubled at the short …
  • … of the earth’s crust from the secular cooling of the globe I am not altogether satisfied with the …
  • … Thomas Henry Huxley and Wallace.  He confided to Huxley, ‘I find that the few sentences which I have …
  • … ourselves bound to agree with him in all his theories, if I could assist him however in his …
  • … and towards the end of the year Darwin complained: ‘I am weary of everlasting males & females, …
  • … & mouth compressed & upper lip raised— An expression, as I read it, of dislike & …
  • … reply, adding: ‘Should the sort of information which I have sent prove of any service to M r . …
  • … wrote enthusiastically to Crichton-Browne on 22 May : ‘I do not know how to thank you enough for …
  • … They contain exactly and fully the information which I wanted; and besides being of the greatest use …
  • … were growing less certain.  As you expected I differ grievously from you, & I am very …
  • … Sweetland Dallas’s edition of Fritz Müller’s  Für Darwin  (Dallas trans. 1869). The book, an …