http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwins-notes-on-marriage Welcome! On this site you can read and search the full texts of more than 7,000 of Charles Darwin’s letters, and find information on 8,000 more. Available here are complete transcripts of all known letters Darwin wrote and received up to the year 1868. <br /> More are being added all the time. Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:01:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwins-notes-on-marriage/comment-page-1#comment-184 Darwin on Social Networking | Darwin and Gender: The Blog Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:01:01 +0000 http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/?p=133612#comment-184 [...] Charles Darwin’s private letters suggest that he was not keen on socialising.  Dedicated scientist that he was, Darwin’s preference was for “society – and little of it”. Indeed, one of Darwin’s concerns about getting married was that it would entail taking a far more active part in London’s social scene, resulting in a life made up of “nothing but society - no country, no tours, no large Zoolog. Collect. no books“. [...] [...] Charles Darwin’s private letters suggest that he was not keen on socialising.  Dedicated scientist that he was, Darwin’s preference was for “society – and little of it”. Indeed, one of Darwin’s concerns about getting married was that it would entail taking a far more active part in London’s social scene, resulting in a life made up of “nothing but society - no country, no tours, no large Zoolog. Collect. no books“. [...]

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