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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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  • … increasingly bitter stand-off with Acton Smee Ayrton, first commissioner of works, about the limits …
  • … of small type, was delivered to Gladstone a week later ( enclosure to letter from John Lubbock to W …
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