Welcome to the website of the Darwin Correspondence Project. On this site you can read and search the full texts of more than 6000 of Darwin’s letters, and find information on 9,000 more. All are being published in the complete edition of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin (F. Burkhardt et al. eds, Cambridge University Press). Available here are complete transcripts of all known letters Darwin wrote and received up to the year 1867, originally published in volumes 1 to 15 of the Correspondence.  More will be added following print publication.  Volume 17 of the Correspondence covering the year 1869 was published in July 2009.

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Volumes 1–8  of the Correspondence now available in paperback.   Find out more…

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