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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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  • selection is somewhat under a cloud’, he wrote to JETaylor on 13 January , and he complained
  • by her husband, Richard Buckley Litchfield ( letter to HELitchfield, 13 May 1872 ). Delivery
  • … 'I know that I am half-killed myself’ ( letter to HELitchfield, 25 July 1872 ). A
  • a week later ( enclosure to letter from John Lubbock to WEGladstone, 20 June 1872 ).  Darwin
  • Ruck, the sister of an old schoolfriend; he married Amy in 1874Francis, still a medical student
  • chemicals, ordered from Darwins usual chemist, William Baxter, were not in this case for his health
  • than usual. One such old friend was Sarah Haliburton, née Owen, to whose sister, Fanny, Darwin had
  • responded Darwin, 'feel as old as Methuselah’ ( letter to BJSulivan, 24 January 1872 ), a