Parkstone, Dorset.
Oct[obe]r. 22nd. 1895
The Rt. Hon. W.E. Gladstone
Dear Sir,
I am much pleased to find that my article on "The Expressiveness of Speech" has interested you, and I thank you for the valuable and extremely suggestive letter you have sent me.
Your remark on the obscure sound of the letter f. did not occur to me. It is quite in accordance with its use in such words as soft, muffled, puff, &c, and its further consideration [2] will probably lead to interesting developments.
Allow me to make use of this opportunity to express the admiration I feel for your character and your life-work.
Although I am what is usually termed an extreme radical I none the less feel that you have done whatever it was possible for you to do in order to advance the cause of justice and of freedom. And whenever I hear it said that more should have been done, I [3] urge the enormous difficulty of working with timid or half-hearted colleagues, and the impossibility of going more than a very little in advance of public opinion.
With best wishes for your health, and with sincere respect, I subscribe myself
Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]
[4]O. 22
Mr. Wallace
Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP1435.4327)]
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[1]1
Parkstone, Dorset,2
October 22nd, 1895
The Rt. Hon. W.E. Gladstone3
Dear Sir,
I am much pleased to find that my article on "The Expressiveness of Speech"4 has interested you, and I thank you for the valuable and extremely suggestive letter you have sent me.
Your remark on the obscure sound of the letter f. did not occur to me5 in such words as soft, muffled, puff, etc. And its further consideration will probably lead to interesting developments.
Allow me to make me this opportunity to express the admiration I fel feel for your character and your life work.
Although I am what is usually termed an extreme radical I none the less feel that you have done whatever it was possible for you to do in order to advance the cause of justice and of freedom. And whenever I hear it said that more should be done I urge the enormous difficulty of working with timid or half-hearted colleagues, and the impossibility of going more than a very little in advance of public opinion.
With best wishes for your health, and with sinc— [2] ere respect,
I subscribe myself | yours very faithfully, | Alfred Russel Wallace
Status: Draft transcription [Transcription (WCP1435.5162)]
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Parkstone, Dorset,1
October 22nd 1895
The Rt Hon. W.E. Gladstone2
Dear Sir,
I am much pleased to find that my article on "The Expressiveness of Speech"3 has interested you, and I thank you for the valuable and extremely suggestive letter you have sent me.
Your remark on the obscure sound of the letter f; f. did not occur to me.4 It is quite in accordance with it me [1 word illeg.] in such words as soft, muffled, puff. And its further consideration will probably lead to interesting developments.
Allow me to make me this opportunity to express the admiration I fel feel for your character and your life work.
Although I am what is usually termed an extreme radical I none the less feel that you have done whatever it was possible for you to do in order to advance the cause of justice and of freedom. And whenever I hear it said that more should be done U I urge the enormous difficulty of working with timid or half-hearted colleagues, and the impossibility of going more than a very little in advance of public opinion.
With best wishes for your health, and with sincere respect,
I subscribe myself | yours very faithfully, | Alfred R. Wallace
Status: Draft transcription [Transcription (cc) (WCP1435.1214)]
For more information about the transcriptions and metadata, see https://wallaceletters.myspecies.info/content/epsilon
Please cite as “WCP1435,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP1435