Charles Darwin 1870 · Down House
A turn around the Sandwalk
Noon · start only
“My father's midday walk generally began by a call at the greenhouse”“Then he went on for his constitutional—either round the "Sand-walk," or outside his own grounds in the immediate neighbourhood of the house.”
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: Paragraph beginning “My father’s midday walk…”
Timing & context
Midday placement is approximate. Neither a fixed route nor an 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.