WCP1592

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24 Sutherland Avenue W.

15 May 1889

Dear Sir

I am reading with the greatest interest your delightful & fascinating "Darwinism"¹— having secured one of the first copies — & I beg to call your attention to "Harper’s Magazine" for the present month, in which there is an interesting article entitled "A Meadow Mud Hole"² giving an account of the complete displacement ^{in the Delaware Valley} of the native growths by the introduced "Egyptian Lotus" w^h. was only placed there some [2] 8 years ago— this being another important illustration of the "Survival of the Fittest" so ably treated by you in Chap 11 of your great book –

With sincere admiration for your work, & an earnest hope for its universal success[.]

I remain | Dear Sir | Yours, with the highest respect, | Frederick Simon³ [signature] M.I.C.E.⁴