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A GENEROUS and timely grant from the Pilgrim Trust has enabled the owners of certain important manuscripts of Charles Darwin to present them, some to the University Library at Cambridge and some to the British Association for preservation at Down House. The gift includes the manuscript of Charles Darwin's autobiography, the manuscript of the diary of the Beagle, with the field note-books from which it was compiled, most of the manuscript of the “Origin of Species”, the manuscript of “Movement in Plants”, “Climbing Plants”, and other works ; correspondence with Wallace, Samuel Butler, Huxley and other contemporaries ; a number of personal papers and of memoranda relating to Down ; and a collection of pamphlets, some with his annotations. It was in 1842 that Charles Darwin went to live at Down House. The first sketch, in his handwriting, of his species theory, written in 1842, is included in the gift.
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DARWIN MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS. Nature 150, 535 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150535a0
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