Charles Darwin 1870 · Down House
Backgammon with Emma
20:00–20:30 · Estimated
Estimated by typical tue. Placed after the evening meal, following the recorded 19:30 tea. Both the start and half-hour length are estimates.Source timing: After dinner
“After dinner he played backgammon with my mother, two games being played every night”
Verbatim excerpt · Francis Darwin
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The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin
Volume I · 1887
Chapter III, “Reminiscences of My Father’s Everyday Life”
Passage: Paragraph beginning “After dinner he played backgammon…”
Timing & context
“My mother” is Emma Darwin. No start or end time is specified.
Weekday in the source
Sunday visits, in the memoir
“a number of visitors came over from Sir John Lubbock's for a Sunday afternoon call”
Chapter III, paragraph beginning ‘It was a great proof of the modesty…’ View passage ↗
Francis Darwin explicitly mentions a Sunday afternoon visit. This is his son's recollection, not Charles Darwin's diary, and it does not date the whole routine to Sunday. The calendar remains a general remembered routine.
His son Francis remembered this routine. Times are approximate; his health shaped the day.
1870 is a representative display year selected by Typical Tuesday. The source describes habits during the Down House years, 1842–1882, especially later life.