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English naturalist Charles Darwin by The Autobiography of Charles Darwin includes 'Recollections of the Development of my Mind and Character', for his family. He states that he started writing it on about May 28, 1876 and had finished it by August 3. The text was published in 1887 (five years after Darwin’s death) by John Murray as part of The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. The text printed in Life and Letters was edited by Darwin’s son Francis Darwin, who removed several passages about Darwin’s critical views of God and Christianity.The omitted passages were later restored by Darwin’s granddaughter Nora Barlow in a 1958 edition to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species.