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Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?

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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . .  What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…

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  • … by the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war in July 1870, and was now halted so that the further …
  • … a sequel to his moderately successful children’s book, Alice’s adventures in  Wonderland , …
  • … out such a litany of ill health to one correspondent that Emma protested: `My wife commands me to …