The Many Lives of Darwin’s Letters

Journal of the History of Biology 55 (2):395-401 (2022)
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The _Correspondence of Charles Darwin_ will be completed in 2022. This essay looks briefly at the history of editing Darwin and compares the modern edition with the Victorian practice of narrating an exemplary life through letters, with commemorative volumes produced by a family member or friend and private material carefully selected to document personal character. How is a scientific life composed? What kind of character is expressed in scientific work?

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