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From W. T. Winn   16 May 1879

Law Office of W. T. and W. J. Winn, | Marietta, Ga., | U.S.A.

May 16th 1879

Mr. Charles Darwin:

Allow me to greet you, as a prophet of the understanding, and send you a cliping from the “Field and Fireside”, published here.1 It is gratifying to a great mind to know that its work is appreciated. Your name will go sounding down the ages, despite the ridicule and denunciation with which you have been assailed.

Respectfully | W. T. Winn

[Enclosure]

Taken from a Lady’s Album.

Charles Darwin has given us a true interpretation of nature, beautiful and new.

Robert J. Ingersoll has applied it truthfully to man, with force and elegance.2

Byron,3 king of poets and monarch of thought, was true to nature and man.

Benevolent and brilliant Byron!

Ecce Homo!!4

1
The Field and Fireside was a weekly newspaper published in Marietta, Cobb, Georgia, from 1877 until at least 1879 (https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ (accessed 16 May 2018)). The newspaper clipping was pasted to the letter.
2
Robert Green Ingersoll was an orator known for his atheist views (ANB).
4
Ecce homo: behold the man (Latin). These words occur in John 19:5, spoken by Pontius Pilate as he presents a scourged Christ to the hostile crowd.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12056,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12056