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Was Darwin the World's First Blogger?

May 17, 2007

Blogger Neil Saunders at What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate points out the launch of a website that contains the text of some 5,000 of Darwin's letters, written around the time of the Beagle voyage and during the years around the 1859 publication of Origin of Species. The main feature of the Darwin Correspondence Project is that the letters are complete and searchable on the website.

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