Llanishen
Cardiff
1904.I.19
Dear Sir,
In forwarding the "Heavens at a Glance" for which you have written will you permit me to enclose an extra copy of the card of which I beg your kind acceptance, and at the same time to be allowed to say how much I have enjoyed and profited by the perusal of your fine work on Man's Place in the Universe. Admitting the various criticisms, the fact still remains that you have pricked a great bubble which needed explosion, and that you have shown with admirable lucidity how slender are the grounds for asserting that life at all akin to human can exist in other worlds than ours. Your work is, if you will allow me to say so, a wholesome corrective to many wild and specious ideas that have been [common] too long.
Believe me | Respectfully yours | Arthur Mee [signature]
Dr Alfred Russell [sic] Wallace F.R.S. &c &c &c
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A Quarterly Record of Natural Phenomena in Wales
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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP1548.1327)]
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