Ernest Willing Darling an Ernst Haeckel, Berkeley, California, 1. Juni 1914
Thanks for letter!
Hurra for our Noble Haeckel! Hale-looking, & writing quite a steady & very clear hand after 80 years of life.
My heart is so glad to look upon your foto showing veneration which I hope shall last to keep you smiling even after the 100 year mark!
I say to medical science || “What are you with all your modern intelligence, if you cannot keep aglow such a fire as I see in the face of Ernest Haeckel as I look upon a recent fotograph.” ( 20 years more!)
It must be done, O Haeckel. You must see & know, & rejoice over the rich harvest of thy pen in emancipating the minds of men from dogmatism. Live & See!
E.W.D. ||
I enclose a few of our wild flowers gathered while on a jaunt in the mountains of California. ||
To Germany: –
Peace to Hohenzollern’s sons!
Let robins nest in Europe’s guns!
Then we’ll have along the Rhine
More of music – less of wine.
– E.W.D. ||
[Beilage: Foto von Darling, nackt arbeitend, Aufnahme von Dr. Risdale of England, Tahiti 1907, egh. Aufschriften Darlings:]
[auf Papierstreifen, der das Bild mittig umläuft:] Ladies not supposed 2 look behind curtain.
Foto by Dr. Risdale of England (on plantation in about 1907)
Clearing brush on plantation in Mts. ||
Natura, clearing brush on plantation in mountains in Tahiti. (1907)