The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin

Including an Autobiographical Chapter

A three-volume life of Charles Darwin, published five years after his death, and edited by his son.

Charles Darwin (Author), Francis Darwin (Edited by)

9781108003452, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 20 July 2009

408 pages

21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.52 kg

This book, the second of three-volumes detailing the life of Charles Darwin, published five years after his death, was edited by his son Francis, who was his father's collaborator in experiments in botany and who after his death took on the responsibility of overseeing the publication of his remaining manuscript works and letters. In the preface to the first volume, Francis Darwin explains his editorial principles: 'In choosing letters for publication I have been largely guided by the wish to illustrate my father's personal character. But his life was so essentially one of work, that a history of the man could not be written ]