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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 moreEmma requests Thomas Carlyle and Miss Aitken to come for lunch. Transcription: "Sep. 1875 Thursday Dear Mr Carlyle Mr Darwin + I are very glad to hear that you will be for some time in this neighbourhood. I wish we could persuade you + Miss [Aitken] to come + take luncheon with us at one o'clock tomorrow or Saturday. It would be a great pleasure to Mr Darwin to see you. I meant to have called on Miss [Aitken] this week but I am afraid I shall not be able to manage it, but I hope she will excuse this want of ceremony + come + see us first. I do not know whether you would like a long walk; but the way to Sown is somewhat shortened by coming through Holwood Park + we are a mile + a quarter from this end of the park. I suppose the distance would be rather more than 2 1/2 miles or probably 3 miles. With Mr Darwin's very kind regards + hopes that we may have the pleasure of seeing you believe me very truly yours Emma Darwin P.S. If I have mentioned too early a day I hope you will come any day next week except Tuesday when we have an engagement." Letter, signed by sender. Sent from Down House, near Beckenham, Kent, England.
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![Letter from Francis Darwin to [Mme. Jout]](https://digital.case.edu/sites/default/files/styles/islandora_imagecache_image_style_medium/public/externals/b22f45e3d1739ceac527079c355c5be4.jpg?itok=cyBIw37t&pid=ksl:ditalldar00080&iic=true)
Show moreA letter to [Mme. Jout] with a list of novels recommended by Emma Darwin and includes a photograph of Charles Darwin. Transcription: "Strausburg July 16/81 Dear Mme Just. I am glad to be able to send you the most recent photograph of my father; it is I think a very good likeness. I also enclose a list of novels recommended by my mother; she has a good deal of ex= perience in novel reading as she reads alout to my father all the best ones that are published. The three American novels by Howell are extremely pleasant, the name of one which I have corrected so badly ought to be "The Lady of the Aroostook". Please let me thank you + Prof Just for the very pleasant day which I spend at [] yours very truly Francis Darwin"
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Show moreA letter to unknown person to say that Charles Darwin first used the phrase "survival of the fittest" in 1868, and that Darwin had borrowed the phrase from Herbert Spencer. Transcription: "Oct 6-08 Dear Sir As far as I know my father first used the expression "survival of the fittest" in 1868. He borrowed it from Herbert Spencer; I do not at the moment remember where Spencer first used it yours faithfully Francis Darwin" Letter, signed by sender. Sent from 13 Madingley Road, Cambridge, England.
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Show moreA letter to unknown person to inquire about his father's address at a particular time. Transcription: "Jan 14 07 Dear Sir If you will look at the Life + Letters [] p 281, 283, 291 you will see that his lodgings were 36 St Marl borough St At vol1 p299 I say that the house occupied by him after his marriage was 12 Upper Gower St. I imagine that Upper G St was part of what is now all called Gower St but I cannot say how that may be I see no reason for thinking that there is a mistake as to his address at that time yours faithfully Francis Darwin" Letter, signed by sender. Sent from Wychfield, Cambridge, England.
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Show morePhotograph of Charles Darwin standing by tree. Photograph by Elliott & Fry, Baker St, London
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Show morePhotograph of Charles Darwin with attached note. "Charles Darwin, Down, Kent, Feb. 28, 1877. With Mr. Darwin's compliments"
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Show morePhotograph of Charles Darwin with note. Photograph taken at H.P. Robinson Great Hall Studio, Tunbridge Wells.
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Show moreLetters sent between Drs. Sacs, Ross & Associates and Melbahu Bryant Mason (Chairman, Forest City Hospital Board of Trustees) regarding a sum of approximately $19,000 that was owed to the doctors for services they provided at FCH.
Donated by Melbahu and Ulysses S. Mason. Physical item kept at Dittrick Medical History Center, Forest City Hospital Archival Collection, Box IV - Folder 10.
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Show moreIllustration from Merchants' Gargling oil liniment. Text underneath advertisement refers to Darwin.
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Show morePhotograph of 'Beagle'. Laid Ashore, River Santa Cruz From Fitz-Roy's 'Narrative'
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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 moreLibrary's copy imperfect: all after leaf [23] wanting. Listed as Darwin Gregory Palmer in Class of 1879 graduates. Cf. F.C. Waite's Alumni catalogue of the School of Medicine of Western Reserve University. Binder's title: Cleveland medical thesis, 1877-1880, v. 43. Holograph. Thesis--Cleveland Medical College, 1879.
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Show moreTranscription: "Dear Sir I wrote to you above a week ago to ask you to send me immediately the body of one of my Porto Santo Rabbits, together with some information. I have not received the rabbit nor any acknowledgement of my letter from you. I now request you will be so good as to write to me by return of post Dear Sir, yours faithfully, Ch. Darwin" Letter sent from Down, Beckenham, Kent, England
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Show moreDarwin recommends H. Müller’s Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873) Transcription: " A.W. Bennett Esq 3. Park Village East Regent Park London N.W. If you have not already seen, D.H. Muller Die Befunckling die [] []" Leipzig 1873 is evident [], I think it shd be worth your []. [] May 5" 1873 C. Darwin" Postcard sent from Down, Beckenham, Kent, England
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