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Letter collection · 1887 · 5 yrs after death

The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin


by Charles Darwin

Kept from gutenberg.pglaf.org · 2 files · 2.2 MBCall number DAR LS1887.01

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1 October 2026
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To checkDarwin's own text, edited by his son Francis Darwin, who died in 1925.Basis: author died 1882; editor Francis Darwin died 1925 (general knowledge), under a life-plus-70-years rule, as of 2026; other rules, such as the United States publication-date rules, are not assessed.The death year here is not in the archive's records; it comes from general knowledge.
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Charles Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887). Long Keeping, call number DAR LS1887.01. https://longkeeping.com/charles-darwin/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin/
Unchanged since collected At the last check, on 2 October 2026, all 903 originals, this work's 2 files among them, matched the fingerprints recorded when they were collected. Each copy is re-checked by hand once a year; there is no automatic alert yet.

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pg2087-life-and-letters-vol1.txtmain plain text 1.1 MB gutenberg.pglaf.org c795bf75dde25565205b8d3ec696e92cebc9019da7dd28d01936fa15bc334dec To checkDarwin's own text, edited by his son Francis Darwin, who died in 1925.Basis: author died 1882; editor Francis Darwin died 1925 (general knowledge), under a life-plus-70-years rule, as of 2026; other rules, such as the United States publication-date rules, are not assessed.The death year here is not in the archive's records; it comes from general knowledge.Held in the archive: a deciding date not yet confirmed from a source. Its source (another site)
pg2088-life-and-letters-vol2.txt plain text 1.1 MB gutenberg.pglaf.org b606fcbb216bc0ae043ce63907ad9ee83a546e7a0a28aea5cda3d2daeb5c2802 To checkDarwin's own text, edited by his son Francis Darwin, who died in 1925.Basis: author died 1882; editor Francis Darwin died 1925 (general knowledge), under a life-plus-70-years rule, as of 2026; other rules, such as the United States publication-date rules, are not assessed.The death year here is not in the archive's records; it comes from general knowledge.Held in the archive: a deciding date not yet confirmed from a source. Its source (another site)