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Show moreNote from Charles Darwin which reads "a big bottle of distilled water 2 oz of [] spirits. Please fill Bottle with same [perfume?] 10th C. Darwin"
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Show moreLetter from Charles Darwin to unknown. Letter shows appreciation for a copy of a translation of his 'Variation under domestication'. Letter marked Dec 20. FG117- $150.00 Transcription: "Dec. 20th F6117 $150.00 Down, Beckenham, Kent. Dear Sir I am very much obliged for the copy of the beautifully got translation of my variation [under?] Domestication, received a few days ago; + for your present of this admirable work on a microscopical [] of [works?]. Dear Sir yours very faithfully Ch. Darwin" Letter, signed by sender. Sent from Down, Beckenham, Kent.
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Show moreFragment of a letter from Charles Darwin to unknown, about paleontology. Transcription: "Little light which I have attempted to [thaw?] as the subject in Chapt. IX. But to respect if my views are in the main (including no doubt much error) right them [] shall [] have to give up our first + natural [] that paleontology gives a fair picture of the forms which have perplexed this earth. We shall have to look at all our paleontological colections as a mere chance gathering of a few forms. Therefore I fully admit that the almost universally [] opinion of one large class facts in geology is diametrically opposed to such views as mine. This part of geology does not [] also support me. On the contrary if the views of Nat. Selections is in main connect, geological view portion of a letter from Charles Darwin, [] leather of the "The Origin of Species."
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Show moreAppreciation for a copy of a translation of his 'Variation under domestication'. Written in pencil is 'F6117, $150.00'. Written on December 20th, no year given. Letter from Down, Beckenham, Kent. Transcription: "Dec 20th F6117 $150.00 Down, Beckenham,Kent Dear Sir I am very much obliged for the copy of the beautifully [set?] translation of my variation when Domestication, received a few days ago; + for your present of the admirable work on the microscopical interaction of [mites?]. Dear Sir yours very faithfully Ch. Darwin"
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Show moreFragment of a letter from [Horace] Darwin to Camilla [Pattrick], congratulating Camilla on her engagement to Mr. Pattrick. The letter is presumed to be written by one of the Darwin children, and is signed with the initials H.S.D. Transcription: "My dearest Camilla I am so very very glad to have this happy news. I was calmly strumming at the pi. when Mama walked in with a beaming face + yr. letter in her hand. I do congratulate you most heartily dear Camilla + hope you may be very happy - you deserve to be I'm sure + I think Mr. Patrick is a very fortunate man. It was not quite sur- prise to us for I was clever enough to guess it when you were here in November at wh. I daresay you'll be surprised. You know I'm un- strayminded enough to think that the [] view of women are better + happier married + of course for you separated from all home ties I can only rejoice entirely. Indeed I am so glad to think that now you can look forward to a home - + not the long vista of tossing about from me stronger to another. I think that having this in prospect will letters change your present life + make you content to wait until it is prudent for you to marry - I have always thought I shd like being engaged very much. I shd like uniting endless answers _ the happiness of resting ont eh feeling that gone are likes you the best in the world undisturbed by also the small worries of married life but it wd all depend on whether uniting letters to some on you are [] with is a pleasurable exercise. This is an incoherent letter but I hope you'll forgive it. I must say one coherent word at the end dear C. that I hope you don't take all my slapdash statements about clergy men to be my literal opinion. I am not so narrowminded as not to see that there are many really deep quite honest minds who can rest on this church. Not to say that my least be [heard] is one of them, at least far more than I shd have thought beforehand possible for such a powerful mind a's hers is brought up as she has been. I hope you will write us a fuller account of Mr. Patrick + yr. prospects. Ever dear C. yrs affectionately H.S.D."
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Show moreWorld of Life manuscript. Two page manuscript copy of what appears to have been an address of some sort apparently given around fifty years after the publication of Darwin's 'Origin'. Transcription: "The World of Life My Subject this evening is the vast World of Life - life, which pervades alike the Earth the water and the air - life, which is ever coming to an end and ever [] itself - life, which is manifested in an endless variety of forms all of which though seeming to us to be fixed and stable, are yet slowly changing, and have been ever changing throughout the unimaginable remote eras of geological history. My object is, to fix your imagination upon the grandeur of this life world of which we ourselves form a part and on which we depend absolutely for the possibility of life; to impress upon you the immensity of the scale on which Nature works in sustaining and modifying these varied life-forms; and, especially, to make it clear to you, that no theory or explanation of Nature's method in the continuous development of these life-forms can have the slightest value, which does not, at every step of the process, take full account of this immensity, as an essential factor in the process of modification. My claim is that Darwinism is the one and only theory yet put forward which fully satisfies these conditions; it is also one of the most simple and easy of comprehension in the whole range of science; yet, after fifty years of continuous exposition, none is so widely and persistently misunderstood. It is not my intention to combat these various misapprehensions in detail, but it is my hope, if I can succeed in placing the subject before (2.a)"
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Show morePhotograph of Thomas Huxley with note. Note explains that the photograph was a gift to Dr. Stecher from Dave Kronick. Date of note is July 23, 1962.
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Show moreEnvelope dated April 24, 1882, addressed to the Rev. J. Brodie Innes, 2 Addison Grove, Bedford Park
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Show moreLetter to [John Brodie Innes] about drama by Thomas Becket. Black edged stationary, From Deanery, Westminster
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Show moreEnvelope dated January 2, 1879, addressed to Milton Brodie, Forres, Scotland Transcription: "J.L. Brodie Innes. Milton Brodie Torres [] Scotland Dear Stanley."
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Show moreManuscript list of books found on particular book shelves Transcription: "Vols. Division.A.2nd Shelf Date 1. Moral+Political Philosophy(Atchd.Paley) 1486 1. Philosophy of Natural History(W.Smellie) 1490 1. Natural Philosophy([], Eufield) 1485 1. The Religion of Nature delineated 1425 8. The Harleian Aliscollany: Curious Tracts +c. from the late Earl of Oxford's Library 1444 9. The itinerary of John Leland d. Antiquary 1440 3. Earl of Shaftesbury's Characteristicks of [], +c..(Printed by J. Baskerville) 1443 1. The Works of Jonathan Richardson 1492 1. Popular Antiquities (John Brand) 1810 2. supplement to the 3rd edition of the } Encyclopedia Britannica marked 19 }1801 +20, vols 1_18, on shelf below._ } 3rd Shelf 18. Encyclopedia Britanicca_ 3rd edition vols. 19_20 on next shelf above. 1494 4th Shelf 1. [] Abraham Cowley's Works 1680 1. The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (Sir Philip Sidney, K.t) 1655 1. A Catalogue of English Kings, Princes +c from Norman Conquest to A.D.1619 1619"
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Show moreLetter from George S. Ffinden concerning the musical services. Sent from Blessington House, Lee. [noted: Easter Tuesday]. Unsigned letter Transcription: "Blessington House Lee Easter Tuesday Dear Ffinden, I hope we may meet again in a day or two, but we may not get a quite chat and also I prefer to write about a notion which has occurred to me, before I can be supposed to have had any conversation with others about our service on Sunday. I came straight away after luncheon in time for [] at St Stephen's and had not a word with any of the []. My question is of the musical service. I had it before me many years ago, and deci- ded against attempting it when some of the most valued members were inclinced to introduce it. My reasons were 1st - that I did not think that the poor and ill instructed portion would enter with and be improved by a musical service, however good, but would rather be repelled, and that to them the greatest con0 sideration should be shown by the stronger brethren- 2nd - That I could not make it good enough to be attractive to cultivated minds. I like such a service with a good trained surpliced choir, but that I could not get at Downe I quite object to a mixed choir of females and my [] want of high musical power made me un- able to say the Priest's part with sufficient accuracy- These were my considerations. [], and I took some pain to ask about; wishing in a mat -ter where no principle was involved to do what was most equable. I have, no hesitation in saying that if I were myself a lay Churchman in Downe I should prefer that the prayers were said, rather than sung even at the best that practice can attain with the materials- If I may venture to [], it would be that you should this week take as many of your regular attendants [] and [] as you can with consultation, say that the sung service is an experiment, to begone on with or not as is considered best, and then act accordingly. It would be easy and graceful to do this [] but [] easy, if in a short time an objection on any grounds should come from below. I hope you will take this in as friendly a spirit as I mean it."
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