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Down House, Kent
1842-1882
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Charles Darwin: A Private Life
A Private Life
1881 · Down House, Kent
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I write now because my heart stumbles, my breath shortens on the stair, and every visitor seems determined to turn my life into either a sermon against faith or a triumphal banner for a certainty I never claimed.
- from the opening of Charles Darwin: A Private Life
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