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From Franklin Society, Union Christian College   23 March 1878

Union | Christian College. | Franklin Society | U. C. C. | “Bonum Exemplum Sequimur.” | Merom, Sullivan County, Indiana,

March 23 1878

Prof. Chas. R Darwin:

Dear Sir

You are hereby notified that you have been elected an honorary member of the “Franklin Literary Society”.1 To receive a favorable reply from you will give us great pleasure

We have already adorned our hall with some valuable portraits and painting, and, wishing to extend the decoration, we would be glad to purchase a life size portrait of yourself.

If you can procure it for us, please oblige us by so doing,

Send bill with the portrait, as soon as possible, and we will remit the money. But let us hear from you immediately.

Your Truly

Joel Myers
G. A. Miller } Committee
P. A. Canada2
(Per. Myers)
1
The Franklin Literary Society was a student organisation that met weekly for reading, public speaking, and debate (Twenty-fifth annual catalogue of the officers and students of Union Christian College at Merom, Sullivan County, Indiana. Sullivan, Indiana: Murray Briggs and son, 1886). Union Christian College was founded in 1858 by the Christian Church (later United Church of Christ); it offered degrees in the sciences and arts to women and men.
2
Joel A. Myers and Prentice A. Canada were students at Union Christian College; G. A. Miller has not been identified.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11438A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11438A