Welcome to the website of the Darwin Correspondence Project. On this site you can read and search the full texts of more than 6000 of Darwin’s letters, and find information on 9,000 more. All are being published in the complete edition of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin (F. Burkhardt et al. eds, Cambridge University Press). Available here are complete transcripts of all known letters Darwin wrote and received up to the year 1867, originally published in volumes 1 to 15 of the Correspondence. More will be added following print publication. Volume 17 of the Correspondence covering the year 1869 was published in July 2009.
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Seen the movie Creation, now showing in the US? Darwin and his wife, Emma, wrote to each other every day as their daughter Annie was dying. Read their letters here…
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To W. E. Darwin 13 May [1857] full text of letterEtty returned yesterday: I grieve to say Etty is not one bit better: everything must bend to her health, & Mamma will take her to Moor Park in a fortnight's time, stay a fortnight, & then I shall go there again for a bit. What we shall do in summer, it is really impossible to say: if we do not go to Malvern, we will try our best to think of some lark or amusement for all of you.
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