Larkum A Natural Calling

Life, Letters and Diaries of Charles Darwin and William Darwin Fox
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4020-9233-6
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 576 Seiten

From 1965-1968, I held an Agricultural Research Council Research Fellowship at Christ's College, Cambridge. Later in 1981, when I was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge and renewed my contacts with Christ's College, my friend and colleague David Coombe, a Fellow of Christ's College, informed me that a collection of letters of Charles Darwin had just been - covered in the Library storeroom, underneath the College. I had always maintained an interest in Charles Darwin, from the early age of thirteen, when I had rst read his books, with I might say some dif culty! This collection was the 155 letters of Charles Darwin to his second cousin William Darwin Fox, which had been given in trust to the College, in 1909, by members of the Fox family at the time of the Darwin Centenary celebrations. I was allowed access to these 155 letters and at that time made my own tr- scriptions. It seemed to me that this was a magni cent account of the lives of two naturalists of the nineteenth century, starting at the time that they were at Christ's together, in 1828, and going to 1880 when W D Fox died - just two years short of the death of Charles Darwin in 1882. Of course this valuable resource had not gone unnoticed before. Darwin's son, Francis Darwin had been given the letters in the 1880s, when he was preparing his Life and Letters of Charles Darwin in 3 volumes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Larkum, Anthony W. D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;6
2;Contents;11
3;List of Figures;21
4;Notes on Abbreviations and Transcriptional Procedures;23
5;Figures;25
6;Chapter 1 Grandfathers and Fathers;47
7;Chapter 2 Christ’s College, Cambridge (1824-1826);58
8;Part 1 of the Diary ofWilliam Darwin Fox from Oct 1824 to June 1826 (Transcribed from DAR 250: 51);66
9;Chapter 3 Charles Darwin at Cambridge: The Letters toWilliam Darwin Fox;90
10;Chapter 4 Darwin’s Voyage on the Beagle;162
11;Chapter 5 Professions, Marriage, Families and Illness;213
12;Chapter 6 The “Origin of Species”;276
13;Chapter 7 The Most Dangerous Man in Europe: Living in the Shadow of Fame;350
14;Chapter 8 The Final Years;398
15;Epilogue;464
16;Appendicies;467
16.1;Appendix 1 The Fox Materials and Their History;467
16.2;Appendix 2 Calendar of the Major Events in the Life ofW D Fox and Documented Meetings between Darwin and Fox;474
16.3;Appendix 3 Family Letters ofWilliam Darwin Fox in the University Library, Cambridge: DAR 250: 50, 53, 54, 55, 56, & 58;477
16.4;Appendix 4 The Diary ofWilliam Darwin Fox: 1824 to 1826: Part 2. 2nd June 1825 to 13th (continued from Chapter 2);488
16.5;Appendix 5 Fragmentary Notes, apparently for Fox’s Diary, 1828;532
16.6;Appendix 6 Transcriptional Variations;535
17;Biographical Register;542
18;Index;557