Charles Darwin 1870 · Down House
Lunch & the newspaper
13:00–14:00 · Estimated
Estimated by typical tue. Placed after the midday walk and before the recorded 15:00 rest. The 13:00 start and one-hour length are estimates.Source timing: After the midday walk
“Luncheon at Down came after his midday walk”“After his lunch, he read the newspaper, lying on the sofa in the drawing-room.”
Two separate excerpts · 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: Paragraphs beginning “Luncheon at Down…” and “After his lunch…”
Timing & context
The sequence is known; a clock time is not.
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.