Charles Darwin’s Complete Correspondence Is Now Available Online

Now you have the opportunity to read most of the personal letters of Charles Darwin. Because the University of Cambridge has published on the Internet the entire surviving correspondence of the evolutionary scientist, including 400 letters that have either been recently discovered or “rethought.”

The Internet Archive may be almost the only way to see a fuller picture of Darwin’s life. The university notes that the final print edition, due in early 2023, does not include letters that arrived too late to make it into physical copies.  Many entries contain footnotes and bibliography.

This last piece of correspondence illustrates how attitudes towards evolution changed during the life of the researcher.

The letters also illustrate how Darwin continued to experiment in the months before his death.