WCP1430

Letter (WCP1430.4224)

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset

July 24th. 1901

S. C. Cockerell Esq[uire].1

Dear Sir

I shall be very much pleased to see you & Mr. Blunt on Saturday afternoon. My little house is just above the railway bridge on the Bournemouth side of Parkstone station.

But I know nothing about horses alive or dead except what I have learnt from Huxley & the Palaeontologists, which I have summarized in my [2] book on Darwinism.

I may however be able to tell Mr. Blunt where he can get any information he requires.

Believe me | Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (1867-1962), English museum curator and collector.

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Transcribed by Benny, Ruth [2014-05-19] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2014-05-19] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10]

Transcription (WCP1430.1209)

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(Copy Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to Sydney C. Cockerell1)

Parkstone, Dorset.

July 24th 1901.

I shall be very pleased to see you and Mr. Blunt2 on Saturday afternoon — my little house is just above the railway bridge on the Bournmouth side of Parkstone station.

But I know nothing about horses alive or dead except what I have learnt from Huxley3and the Palaeontologists, which I have summarised in my book on Darwinism.4

I may however be able to tell Mr. Blunt where he can get any information he requires.

1
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle (1867-1962). Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
2
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen (1840-1922). British poet, horse breeder and political essayist.
3
Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-1895). British biologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog".
4
Wallace, Alfred Russel (1889). Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with Some of Its Applications, London: MacMillan.

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Transcription (WCP1430.4225)

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Parkstone, Dorset, July 24th. 1901

I shall be very much pleased to see you & Mr. Blunt on Saturday afternoon. My little house is just above the railway bridge on the Bournemouth side of Parkstone station.

But I know nothing about horses alive or dead except what I have learnt from Huxley & the Palaeontologists, which I have summarized in my [2] book on Darwinism.

I may however be able to tell Mr. Blunt where he can get any information he requires.

(Wilfrid Scawen Blunt)

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Status: Draft transcription [Transcription (WCP1430.4225)]

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Transcribed by Sloyan, Victoria [2014-04-15]

Please cite as “WCP1430,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP1430