Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 — Charles Darwin
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Beginning
By Charles Darwin
Including An Autobiographical Chapter
Edited By His Son Francis Darwin
VOLUME I
PREFACE
In choosing letters for publication I have been largely guided by the wish to illustrate my father's personal character. But his life was so essentially one of work, that a history of the man could not be written without following closely the career of the author. Thus it comes about that the chief part of the book falls into chapters whose titles correspond to the names of his books.
In arranging the letters I have adhered as far as possible to chronological sequence, but the character and variety of his researches make a strictly chronological order an impossibility. It was his habit to…
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