Our confounded carrier suddenly changed his mind & goes up to night, perhaps he will bring the rabbit tomorrow evening. “I telegraphed you this morning about the Rabbit. Several were about rabbits Darwin needed for an experiment. The handwritten letter was one of a series exchanged between the two men, according to the Darwin Correspondence Project. 9, 1872, was written to Darwin’s cousin, Francis Galton, a prominent Victorian scientist who coined the term eugenics. “He enjoyed what a college does for a small town in terms of its impact on culture and knowledge.”ĭarwin was a prolific letter writer, corresponding more than 15,000 times with his family and a range of other people around the world. “He really appreciated the College being a bastion of learning and education in the area, and he took advantage of it,” said his daughter, Jocelyn, who lives in Grand Junction. Although he had no direct connection to Union – he was a graduate of the University of Toronto - he would visit the library weekly and attend lectures on campus. When he died in 2018 at age 93, Earle Mullen – a man who loved the opera, classical music and fine wine – specified in his will that the letters go to the College. The letters now have a new address: Special Collections in Schaffer Library. They paid just under a thousand dollars for each.Ī physicist himself, Earle Mullen held both men in high regard.įor more than two decades, the letters hung on the wall of the den in the couple’s Niskayuna home and later in Grand Junction, Colo., where they moved in 2008.
The Mullens left that day with two framed signed letters: one by evolutionist Charles Darwin and the other from the famed German physicist Albert Einstein.
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