Thirty years ago, in 1993, I treated myself to the first 8 volumes of Darwin’s Correspondence, which was all that had been published at the time. Ever since, one of my ambitions has been to live long enough to collect the full set. Today, on my 58th birthday, I realised that ambition.
Now there’s the small matter of reading them all. I’m currently half-way through volume 12.
Wonderful! I wish I had at least one volume of the set... but I do have all the other books on the bottom shelf.