charles_darwin

Annotated Bibliography
full (with a citation to the original journal or magazine). An invaluable
resource for the study of Darwin.
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Editions of Darwin’s Manuscript Works
Barlow, Nora, ed. The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–1882. London:
Collins, 1958. The autobiography Darwin wrote for his children, with
commentary by Barlow. Includes the material removed by Darwin’s
son Francis for a published version of the autobiography and Darwin’s
letters (1887).
Burkhardt, Frederick, and Sydney Smith, eds. The Correspondence of Charles
Darwin. 13 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985–2002.
Part of an ongoing project to publish all Darwin’s correspondence,
both sent and received. The volumes published cover the period 1821
to 1864. Each volume has useful appendixes, such as a brief biography
of each correspondent.
———. A Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821–1882.
New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1985. A supplement to
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Lists all the known letters written
by and to Darwin with a summary of the contents.
Darwin, Francis, ed. The Foundations of the Origin of Species, Two Essays
Written in 1842 and 1844 by Charles Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1909. The first two essays in which Darwin wrote
out his theory. Darwin argues against the immutability of species and
for a common ancestor for all species.
———. The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Including an Autobiographical
Chapter. 3 vols. London: John Murray, 1887. First major biography
and collection of Darwin’s letters published after his death. Includes
an edited version of Darwin’s autobiography and reminiscences of
Darwin by the editor, his son. Essential reading.
Herbert, Sandra, ed. The Red Notebook of Charles Darwin. Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press, 1980. Edited version of the notebook
Darwin wrote while on the Beagle voyage.
Stauffer, R. C., ed. Charles Darwin’s Natural Selection: Being the Second Part
of His Big Species Book Written from 1856 to 1858. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1975. The book on the origin of species
that Darwin began to write but never finished.
Books on Darwin
Barrett, Paul H., Donald J. Weinshank, and Timothy T. Gottleber, eds. A
Concordance to Darwin’s Origin of Species, First Edition. Ithaca, NY: