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Sir George Howard Darwin letter to Frederick Pollock
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Charles Darwin letter to C.W. Stoddard
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A full transcription of the letter follows: "Dear Sir, I am obliged for your extremely courteous letter. It is of course a great satisfaction to me to hear that my work has in any way interested an interested and observing person. I am little surprised at what you say about certain plants not fruiting or flowering in the Sandwich Islands; though this is very common in hotter countries. There is nothing I shd enjoy so much as to visit California, but I am growing old & my health is weak. With my best thanks, I beg leave to remain Dear Sir Yours faithfully, Ch. Darwin. P.S. I am obliged for your enclosures." The letter, written from Beckenham, Kent, is dated May 5; no year is given. The letter is in reply to one sent by Charles Warren Stoddard on 11 April 1870 (see the Darwin Correspondence Project).
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Charles Darwin letter to B. D. Wrangham
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A full transcription of the letter follows: "Dear Sir, I am much obliged for your kindess in having copies & sent me the long & striking passage from Kepler. I remain Dear Sir, Yours faithfully, Ch Darwin." A copy of the passage accompanies the letter. The letter is written from Beckenham, Kent and includes the addressed envelope.
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Letters and documents related to Charles Ben Darwin
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Group of letters and documents by and related to Charles Ben Darwin. Includes a poem by Darwin written "for Kate Snyder's album" (1853), a letter from W.H.L. Barnes referring to Darwin's defense of Martha Wilson (1885), a letter from Samuel Morgan Shortridge to Darwin asking for a recommendation to the General Land Office in the Arizona Territory (1889), 2 letters of recommendation for Darwin to the Iowa Delegation at Washington, a letter from Anna Darwin describing some Darwin family genealogy, and a letter from W. Kellogg to Darwin's widow Mary regarding the moving of remains from Old Laurel Hill cemetery in San Francisco (1947).
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Charles Darwin letter to John Ralfs
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In this letter, written to English botanist John Ralfs, Darwin talks about his experiments and observations on insectivorous (carnivorous) plants, and his forthcoming book, Insectivorous plants, which was published in 1875. The letter was dictated to Darwin's son Frank, but is signed by Charles Darwin.
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Charles Darwin collection
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The collection contains correspondence from Charles Darwin to British botanist John Forbes Royle, American philosopher and historian John Fiske, and German biologist Ernst Krause. Also includes correspondence from Sir Francis Darwin to Ernst Krause. There is also one letter by British zoologist and curator William S. Dallas to Ernst Krause. Several of Charles Darwin's letters were written by his son, Francis. The subjects of the letters include Darwin's work, biology, Darwin's father, physician Robert Darwin, grandfather, natural philosopher and poet Erasmus Darwin, English poet and author of Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin Anna Seward (1742-1809), and English novelist and critic Samuel Butler (1835-1902).
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George S. Patton letters to Eleanor Banning Macfarland and John Cobb Macfarland
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Two letters from General George S. Patton (1885-1945) to his cousin Eleanor Banning Macfarland and her husband John Cobb Macfarland. The letter to Eleanor is dated October 21, 1918, and was written while Patton was recovering from a leg wound he received in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive during World War I. Patton congratulates Eleanor on the birth of her daughter, Anne Banning Macfarland Brown (who had been born in July), sends his best wishes to various relatives, and notes that "I will be out [of the hospital] in a week or so...and can get back in the show and have some fun" (Patton returned to duty on October 28 but saw no further action before the armistice of November 11). The letter to John Macfarland is dated October 8, 1940. Patton thanks Macfarland for his congratulations (probably on Patton's promotion to brigadier general on October 2). Patton writes that "if and when" the United States entered World War II, he hopes he will "have the guts to put my theories of personal leadership into action." He further notes that he feels that he is "better situated to be killed than most as I have had out of life about all there is to get." He also comments on missing the recently deceased Eleanor, who was "very like a sister" to him.
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