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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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  • good wishes Mivart enclosed a copy of an article replying to Thomas Henry Huxleys scathing review
  • to dinner the following week together with the sculptor Thomas WoolnerThe difficulty of getting
  • Ruck, the sister of an old schoolfriend; he married Amy in 1874Francis, still a medical student
  • 23 December 1872, CD note ), and he exclaimed to Thomas Huxley that he would like a society formed, …
  • a letter that rivals Darwins own in wit and warmth, and Thomas Huxley proudly signed himself, `One
  • sought out old schoolfriends such as the ornithologist Thomas Campbell Eyton. Admiral Sulivan sent