Charles Darwin 1870 · Down House
Into the study
08:00–09:30
“considering the 1 1/2 hour between 8 and 9.30 one of his best working times.”
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 breakfasting alone…”
Timing & context
Francis describes this as one of his father’s best working periods.
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.