A note on this hourEstimated by typical tue. 20:30 follows the estimated backgammon block. Neither the reading’s start nor its duration is stated.Source timing: After backgammon; music often followed reading
He read as long as his strength allowed. Listening to Emma play was frequent, not obligatory every evening.
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 middle and later years · Remembered routineHis 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.
