A huge archive of Darwin's unpublished material has been put on line this week at The Complete Works of Charles Darwin. Many of his notebooks were already on line, but much of that was previously published (so the notes that were on line were actually published. The newly netted material has no previously been available to anyone who did not go to the original archives.
This is the raw stuff, scans of the actual papers.
The main link to access this material is HERE. This is the same site that I have used in my earlier posts on Darwin's writings.
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