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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Charles Silk
Date:
30 November 1858
Source of text:
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/45
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/60
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/60
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/60
Summary:
ARW's love of solitude; suggests Silk reads his article [with Darwin about natural selection] in August Linnean Society Proceedings; proud of complimentary remarks by Lyell and Hooker therein; dislike of politics; interest in ethnology; asks about books read; has read Tristram Shandy and novels by Dumas; marriage; sending an article on "smoke" for The Athenaeum.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project