Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould
- Introduction
- Note on the Text
- Acknowledgments
- Symbols and Abbreviations
- Prologue
- Shrewsbury
- Edinburgh
- Cambridge
- The Offer
- The Voyage: South America – East Coast
- The Voyage: South America – West Coast
- Homeward Bound
- 1837
- 1838
- 1839–1843
- 1844
- 1845–1846
- 1847
- 1848
- 1849
- 1850
- 1851
- 1852–1854
- 1855
- 1856
- 1857
- 1858
- 1859
- Biographical Register
- Bibliography of Biographical Sources
- Bibliographical Note
- Further Reading
- Index
Prologue
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 April 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould
- Introduction
- Note on the Text
- Acknowledgments
- Symbols and Abbreviations
- Prologue
- Shrewsbury
- Edinburgh
- Cambridge
- The Offer
- The Voyage: South America – East Coast
- The Voyage: South America – West Coast
- Homeward Bound
- 1837
- 1838
- 1839–1843
- 1844
- 1845–1846
- 1847
- 1848
- 1849
- 1850
- 1851
- 1852–1854
- 1855
- 1856
- 1857
- 1858
- 1859
- Biographical Register
- Bibliography of Biographical Sources
- Bibliographical Note
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
The first letter in this volume was written when Darwin was twelve. The following provide some details of his life up to that point.
1809
Charles Robert Darwin was born on 12 February, second son and fifth of six children of Robert Waring Darwin, physician of Shrewsbury, and Susannah, daughter of Josiah Wedgwood I, master-potter of Staffordshire.
1817
Attended the Reverend George Case's school in the spring. On 15 July, Darwin's mother died, aged 52.
1818
Entered Shrewsbury School as a boarding student.
1822
Began to assist his older brother Erasmus with chemistry.
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- OriginsSelected Letters of Charles Darwin, 1822–1859. Anniversary edition., pp. xxix - xxxPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008