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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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  • … under siege The whole exchange had taken just one week, but the continuing influence of …
  • … [1872] ). He was far from idle during their five-week stay.  In addition to visiting colleagues …
  • … at the end of March, he now devoted several weeks to the hunt for artists who could adequately …
  • … ) and invited Butler to dinner the following week together with the sculptor Thomas Woolner.  The …
  • … to eight pages of small type, was delivered to Gladstone a week later ( enclosure to letter from …
  • … ). By early November, despite an enforced three-week holiday in early October, when excessive use of …

Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson

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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…

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  • … contrary gales similar to those which detained us a whole week.” “At daylight on the 4 th …
  • … that you send is still too small in quantity to last out the week – I think it would be better to …
  • … intimated that in case of that being done – he would hunt out the perpetrators – and hang them upon …
  • … their value from him – but he paid them two rupees a week in goods (at his own valuation) provided …
  • … trip. Lastly – I have to add here that the “two rupees a week” was and is – paid only to the aged …
  • … employed they were then paid accordingly – lastly that the week’s work time for those working by the …
  • … legislation by the consecration of a second sabbath in the week of seven days *[3] This …
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