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 18 of the Correspondence covering the year 1870 has just been published (April 2010). Find out more about what Darwin was doing in 1870 or read the full introduction to volume 18 here.

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