169
“Your words have come true with a vengeance…and other excerpts from Charles’s letters to Lyell: Letters: A Selection, pp. 188–89
171
“What has frightened us…” and “I have always thought you would have made…”: Darwin Correspondence Project, www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-2295.html
172
“It was the most blessed relief…”: Darwin Correspondence Project, www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-2297.html
172
“I am quite prostrated…”: Letters: A Selection, p. 190
173
“This MS. work was never intended for publication…”: Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=side&itemID=F350&pageseq=1
Chapter 25: The Origins of The Origin
174
“I fear I shall never be able to make it good enough”: Life and Letters, Volume I, p. 489
175
“On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties…” and “The gentlemen having, independently and unknown to one another…” and other excerpts from his paper: Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=side&itemID=F350&pageseq=1
178
“My God how I long for my stomach’s sake…”: Darwin Correspondence Project, www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-2450.html
179
“caught the other day Brachinus crepitans…”: Life and Letters, Volume I, p.496
179
“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short”: Thoreau, p. 311
Chapter 26: Dependent on Each Other
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“Then how should I manage all my business…”: Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=CUL-DAR210.8.2&viewtype=side&pageseq=1
181
“I am afraid this is very wearisome to you”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 48
182
“an exception to every wife”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 183
182
“Would you be so good”: Life and Letters, Volume I, p. 115
182
“It may metaphorically be said…”: Origin, p. 90
183
“Long before the reader has arrived…”: Origin, p. 158
183
“To suppose that the eye…” “When it was first said that the sun…” and “Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations…”: Origin, pp. 168–69
185
“It is interesting to contemplate…”: Origin, p. 450
Chapter 27: What the Lord Hath Delivered
187
“I hope you are not working too hard…”: Charles to Huxley, September 10, 1860, Darwin Correspondence Project, www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-2909.html
187
“It is a wonderful thing…Mudie taking 500 copies”: Darwin Correspondence Project footnote, www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-2549.html
188
“If a monkey has become a man…”: Browne, Power of Place, p. 87
189
“I have read your book with more pain than pleasure”: Sedgwick to Charles, November 24, 1859, Darwin Correspondence Project, www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-2548.html
191
“How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!”: Browne, Darwin’s Origin, p. 94
191
“I trust you will not allow yourself….” and “I am sharpening up my claws & beak in readiness”: Huxley to Darwin, November 23, 1859, Darwin Correspondence Project, www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-2544.html
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“go the whole orang”: Browne, Power of Place, p. 79
194
“There is grandeur in this view of life…”: Origin, p. 450
Chapter 28: Feeling, Not Reasoning
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“I wish you knew how I value you…”: Litchfield, Volume II, pp. 171–72
196
“his various experiments this summer…”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 177
197
“there seems too much misery in the world”: Charles to Gray, May 22, 1860, Darwin Correspondence Project, www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-2814.html
197
“I am conscious that I am in an utterly hopeless muddle…”: Charles to Gray, November 26, 1860, Darwin Correspondence Project, www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-2998.html
198
“so much affection in her nature as will secure her from selfishness”: Litchfield, Volume I, p. 135
198
“begged me to come to her and bring the three children…” and other details of Emma’s invitation to Mrs. Huxley: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 186
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“the cheerful and affectionate looks…”and other excerpts from this letter: Litchfield, Volume II, pp. 174–75
Chapter 29: Such a Noise
202
“I remember when in Good Success Bay…”: Life and Letters, Volume 1, p. 73
202
“I bet you half a crown…”: Browne, Power of Place, p. 207
203
“Your last letter was not interesting…”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 181
203
“An Appeal…”: Litchfield, Volume II, pp. 178–80
205
“Will you tell us what you can remember…”: Charles to Fox, September 4, 1863, Darwin Correspondence Project, www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-4292.html
205
“flower of my flock”: Hooker to Charles, October 1, 1863, Darwin Correspondence Project, www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-4317.html
206
“Your note is most pathetic…”: Charles to Hooker, October 4, 1863, Darwin Correspondence Project, www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-4318.html
206
“I am surprised at my industry”: Autobiography, p. 119
206
“Is astonishment expressed by the eyes…”: Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=side&itemID=F873&pageseq=1
207
“We have been rather overdone with Germans…”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 223
207
“I am afraid I must leave off now”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 170
208
“hot-house face of despair”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 197
208
“I would as soon be called Dog”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 192
208
“It’s dogged as does it”: Life and Letters, Volume I, p. 125
209
“From your earliest years you have given me…” to “…dear old mother”: Litchfield, Volume II, pp. 204–5
210
“I think she has taken it into her head…”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 198
210
“famishing” and “…good girl”: Life and Letters, Volume I, p. 92
210
“My views have often been grossly misrepresented” through “On the whole I do not doubt that my works…”: Autobiography, pp. 125–26
211
“I sometimes feel it very odd…”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 211
Chapter 30: Mere Trickery
212
“I have been speculating last night…”: Charles to Horace, December 15, 1871, Litchfield, Volume II, p. 207
212
“She kept a sorrowful wish…”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 175
215
“play the game fairly” and “The usual manifestations occurred…”: Litchfield, Volume II, pp. 216–17
215
“before all these astounding miracles…” and Charles’s other thoughts about the dance: Life and Letters, Volume III, p. 187
Chapter 31: Varmth to the End
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“I cannot bear her notion…”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 213
217
“Pray give our…”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 221
218
“Your father is taking a good deal…”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 225
219
“half kill” and “bent on going, chiefly for the worms”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 226
220
“How often, when a man, I…”: Life and Letters, Volume I, p. 112
221
“Oh Lord, what a set of sons I have…”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 224
221
“I felt very grand…”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 231
221
“no consequence to any one except myself” and other excerpts from his 1879 letter: Charles to John Fordyce, May 7, 1879, Darwin Correspondence Project, www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-12041.html
221
“very unwilling to give up my belief…”: Autobiography, p. 86
222
“He moons about in the garden…”: Morris and Wilson, p. 46
222
“The coat…will never warm…” and “afraid it will soon be worn out”: Litchfield, Volume II, pp. 239–40
223
“does not make much progress…”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 241
223
“To me there was a charm in his manner…”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 247
223
“Worms have played a more important part…”: Worms, p. 288
224
“Tell all my children…” through “…to be nursed by you”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 253
224
“ditto” and other notes from Emma’s Diaries: Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/EmmaDiaries.html
Chapter 32: Happy Is the Man
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“His body is buried in peace, but his name liveth evermore” and “Happy is the man that findeth wisdom…” from Charles’s funeral program: Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=A204&viewtype=side&pageseq=1
Chapter 33: Unasked Questions
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“I feel a sort of wonder…”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 254
228
“precious packet”: Litchfield, Volume I, p. 261
229
“I am so pleased to find how comfortable I can…” and “It gives me a sort of companionship…”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 272
229
“I should prefer…” and “in almost every one…”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 280
230
“There is one sentence in the Autobiography…” and “I should wish if possible to avoid giving pain…”: Autobiography, pp. 93–94
231
“I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation,” through “I can indeed hardly see how…”: Autobiography, pp. 86–87
231
“I am rather ashamed to find I use up rather more…”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 275
232
“I am reading the Psalms…”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 305
232
“My dear daughter in heart”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 304
232
“Grandmama, did your little children have kites?”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 273
232
“Her buoyant spirit and the essential reserve…”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 283
232
“I marvel at my good fortune…”: Autobiography, p. 97
Epilogue: So Much to Worship
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“There is a grandeur in this view of life…”: Origin, p. 450
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“I suppose one does admire one’s own view absurdly”: Litchfield, Volume II, p. 286
235
“The path in front of the veranda…” and “All the flowers that grew at Down…”: Raverat, p. 141
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“The faint flavour of the ghost…” through “faintly holy and sinister, like a church”: Raverat, p. 153
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“At Down there were more things to worship…” Raverat, p. 142
Selected Bibliography
In researching this book, I relied as much as possible on primary sources (letters, diary entries, Charles Darwin’s notebooks and manuscripts, as well as his autobiography and other published books). I was not always able to do so, however, and fortunately was able to rely on the scholarship of others. Below is a list, albeit incomplete, of the books that helped me. The resources on the Internet are almost infinite. But the two sites I used most and would recommend are The Darwin Correspondence Project (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) and The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (http://darwin-online.org.uk). These sites are continually updated.
Austen, Jane. Emma. New York: Pantheon, The Novel Library. First published 1816 in London.
——. Pride and Prejudice. New York: Pantheon, The Novel Library. First published 1813 in London.
Browne, Janet. Charles Darwin. The Power of Place: The Origin and After—The Years of Fame. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
——. Charles Darwin. Voyaging. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
——. Darwin’s Origin of Species: A Biography. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006.
Darwin, Charles. The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–1882: With original omissions restored. Ed. Nora Barlow. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1958 (1969 edition).
——. Charles Darwin’s Letters: A Selection, 1825–1859. Ed. Frederick Burkhardt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
——. Charles Darwin’s Notebooks, 1836–1844. Eds. Paul H. Barrett, Peter J. Gautrey, Sandra Herbert, David Kohn, and Sydney Smith. British Museum (Natural History). Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
——. Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Volumes 2, 4, 5, 7. Ed. Frederick Burkhardt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
——. The Descent of Man. London: Penguin Books, 2004.
——. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.
——. The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on Their Habits. London: John Murray, 1904.
——. The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Volume I. Ed. Francis Darwin. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1893.
——. The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Volume II. Ed. Francis Darwin. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1911.
——. The Origin of Species. New York: New American Library, 1958.
——. Voyage of the Beagle. Harvard Classics. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1909.
——. Voyage of the Beagle. London: Penguin, 1989.
Darwin, Emma. “The Pound of Sugar.” Cambridge Library, 2002.
——. Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters, 1792–1896. Volumes I and II. Ed. Henrietta Litchfield. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1915.
Desmond, Adrian, and James Moore. Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist. New York: Warner Books, 1991.
Dickens, Charles. Nicholas Nickleby. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. (First published in book form October 1839.)
Flanders, Judith. Inside the Victorian Home. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Wives and Daughters. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Healey, Edna. Emma Darwin: The Inspirational Wife of a Genius. London: Headline, 2001.
Keynes, Randal. Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution. New York: River-head Books, 2002.
Malthus, T.R. An Essay on the Principle of Population. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Morris, Solene, and Louise Wilson. Down House: The Home of Charles Darwin. English Heritage, 1998.
Newman, Francis William. Phases of Faith or Passages from the
History of My Creed. London: J. Chapman, 1850.
Pool, Daniel. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist: The Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Porter, Duncan M. “The Beagle Collector and His Collections.” Chapter 31 in The Darwinian Heritage, edited by David Kohn. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.
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