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Charles Darwin's Letters: A Selection 1825-1859.(Review)

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From: The Australian Journal of Politics and History
Date: 19990301
Author:CROOK, PAUL

Frederick Burkhardt, ed., Charles Darwin's Letters: A Selection 1825-1859. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 249.

There has been a good deal of filling recently in the Darwinian field. Fortunately scholars now have excellent collections of primary materials to work from. The appearance, long awaited, of the massive, and meticulously edited, Cambridge edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (9 vols, 1985-95) has been a publishing triumph. I remember, on various visits to the manuscript room of the Cambridge University Library, seeing the Darwin editorial ...

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