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A Natural Calling - Life, Letters and Diaries of Charles Darwin and William Darwin Fox (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
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A Natural Calling - Life, Letters and Diaries of Charles Darwin and William Darwin Fox (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
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From 1965-1968, I held an Agricultural Research Council Research
Fellowship at Christ's College, Cambridge. Later in 1981, when I
was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry, University
of Cambridge and renewed my contacts with Christ's College, my
friend and colleague David Coombe, a Fellow of Christ's College,
informed me that a collection of letters of Charles Darwin had just
been - covered in the Library storeroom, underneath the College. I
had always maintained an interest in Charles Darwin, from the early
age of thirteen, when I had rst read his books, with I might say
some dif culty! This collection was the 155 letters of Charles
Darwin to his second cousin William Darwin Fox, which had been
given in trust to the College, in 1909, by members of the Fox
family at the time of the Darwin Centenary celebrations. I was
allowed access to these 155 letters and at that time made my own
tr- scriptions. It seemed to me that this was a magni cent account
of the lives of two naturalists of the nineteenth century, starting
at the time that they were at Christ's together, in 1828, and going
to 1880 when W D Fox died - just two years short of the death of
Charles Darwin in 1882. Of course this valuable resource had not
gone unnoticed before. Darwin's son, Francis Darwin had been given
the letters in the 1880s, when he was preparing his Life and
Letters of Charles Darwin in 3 volumes.
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