WCP1549

Letter (WCP1549.1328)

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Holborn Hall

[London] W.C.2

22nd February 1911.3

Dr. A. Russel Wallace, O.M., LL. D.,

Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne, Dorset.

Dear Dr. Russel Wallace,

The Council is arranging the issue, through Messrs. Cassell & Co., of a series of New Tracts for the Times,4 dealing with the subjects named on the enclosed sheet, and begs to ask you whether you would contribute Tract No. 10.5 The Tracts will run to a minimum of 12,000 words, and will be issued quarterly.

The Council would ask to be allowed to offer you an acknowledgement of ten guineas for your MS., which would not be required for three months.

The Council desires me to express its best thanks for your early favourable response,

Yours faithfully | James Marchant6 [signature]

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The letter is headed by the following printed text:

Telegrams: "MORALITAS, LONDON." Telephone: 2701 CITY.

National Council of Public Morals.

Motto:-

"The foundations of glory are set in the homes of the people. They will only remain unshaken while the family life of our race and nation is strong, simple and pure." HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE V.

President, , 1911-12:

The Lord Bishop of Durham

Vice-Presidents:

The Rt. Hon. Viscount Clifden ,D,L, His Grace the Archbishop Of Westminster Lady Henry Somerset
The Rt. Hon. & Rt. Rev. Lord Bishop of London Francis Bishop of Menevia Lady Battersea
The Rt. Hon. & Rt. Rev. Lord Bishop of Winchester The Very Rev. The Dean of Canterbury, D.D. Lady McLaren
The Rt. Hon. & Rt. Rev. Lord Bishop of Ripon The Very Rev. The Dean of Durham, D.D. Mrs. Bramwell Booth
The Rt. Hon. & Rt. Rev. Lord Bishop of Rochester The Very Rev. H. Adler D.D. (Chief Rabbi Mrs. Price Hughes
The Rt. Hon. & Rt. Rev. Lord Bishop of Hereford The Rev. William Canon Barry D.D. Sir Dyce Duckworth, M.D.
The Rt. Hon. & Rt. Rev. Lord Bishop of Liverpool The Rev. A. R. Buckland, M.A. Sir Thos. Barclay, LL. B., Ph.D.
The Rt. Hon. & Rt. Rev. Lord Bishop of Bristol The Rev. A. Taylor, M.A. Sir W. J. Crossley, M.P.
The Rt. Hon. & Rt. Rev. Lord Bishop of Truro The Rev. Prof. Herman Gollancz, M.A. Sir A. Pearce Gould, M.D.
The Rt. Hon. Lord Kinnaird The Rev. Prof. T. Witton Davies, D.D., Ph.D. Dr. C. W. Saleeby, F.R.S.E., F.Z.S.
The Rt. Hon. Lord Peckover of Wisbech Prof. G. Sims Woodhead, M.A., M.D. Dr. Vickerman Rutherord
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Welldon, D.D. The Rev. J. B. Paton, M.A., D.D. Dr. H. Grattan Guiness
The Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Barking, D.D. The Rev. J. Monro Gibson, M.A., LL.D George Cadbury, Esq., J.P.
The Rt. Hon. A. Emmott, P.C., M.P. The Rev. C. Silvester Horne, M.A., M.P.
The Rev. the Hon. E. Lyttleton, M.A. The Rev. John Clifford, M.A., D.D.
The Rev. H. Montagu Butler D.D. The Rev. J. Guinness Rogers, D.D.
The Rev. Principal A. M. Fairbairn M.A., D.D. The Rev. Principal Alexander Whyte, D.D.
The Rev. Principal C. Chapman, M.A., LL.D. The Rev. D. Brook, M.A., D.C.L.
The Rev. Principal P.T. Forsyth, M.A., D.D. The Rev. J. H. Jowett, M.a., D.D.
The Rev. Principal.J.H. Moulton, M.A., D. Litt. The Rev. R. F. Horton, M.A., D.D.
The Rev. Principal A. E.Garvie, M.A., D.D. The Rev. W.J. Townsend, D.D.
The Rev. Cannon S. A. Barnett, M.A. The Rev. J.D. Jones, M.A., B.D.
The Rev. Prebendary Carlile The Rev. R.J. Campbell, M.A.
The Rt. Hon. H. L. Samuel, P.C., M.P. Sir T. Fowell Buxton, C.G.M.G., D.L.
The Rt. Hon.Sir J. Compton Rickett, P.C., M.P. Sir Francis F. Belsey, J.P.
Sir Thomas Glen-Coats, D.L., M.P. John Murray, Esq., J.P., D. L.
Percy Alden, Esq., M.A., M.P. William Baker Esq., M.A., LL.B.
J. Ramsay MacDonald, M.P. Howard Williams, Esq., J.P., D.L.

Chairman of Committee: | The Venerable Wm. M. Sinclair, D.D., Archdeacon of London

Vice Chairman: | The Rev. F. B. Meyer, B.A.

Director and Secretary: Rev. James Marchant

Treasurer: | John A. Boardman, Esq.

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Annotated " WP6/11/15" to the right of "Holborn Hall," in pencil in an unknown hand.
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The text of the letter, with the exception of the signature, is typescript.
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Tracts for the Times were a series of 90 theological publications, produced by members of the English Oxford Movement, an Anglo-Catholic revival group, from 1833 to 1841. New Tracts for the Times was a series proposed by the National Council of Public Morals which intended to issue the first publication in 1911, the Coronation year.
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There is no scan of an attached sheet. The page is annotated in the left margin opposite the printed header and at right angles to it, in Wallace’s hand 'May possibly write on last subject [a word or words missing from scanned image] "Social Environment & Moral Progr<ess"'.>
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Marchant, James. (1867-1956). ARW's biographer. KBE 1921.

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Transcribed by Lucas, Paula [2018-08-15]

Please cite as “WCP1549,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP1549