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WCP1806

Letter (WCP1806.1695)

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Frith Hill, Godalming.

Feby 9th. 1883

Dear Dr. Norris1

I have been asked to fill Dr. Romanes’2 place to lecture for the Midland Institute on the 19th Inst. & have accepted. I therefore write to you with the freedom of a friend to ask you whether it will be quite convenient to Mrs. Norris & yourself to give me your kind hospitality for two or three days — or I want to lecture on my hobby — "Land Nationalisation" — as well. I have no doubt [2] I shall receive some other invitation, but I have so pleasant a recollection of my last visit to your house that I should prefer to have so good a reason for declining to go to a new place. Pray however do not scruple to say it will be inconvenient if it really is so.

Dr. Saundby3 of the Birmingham Medical Review has been writing4 [3] to me about Land Nationalisation. I hope he is a friend of yours.

With kind remembrances to Mrs. Norris & your daughters[.]

Believe me | yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
. Norris, Richard Hill (1830-1916). British physiologist, spiritualist and photographer.
2
Romanes, George John (1848-1894). Canadian-born British evolutionary biologist and physiologist.
3
Saundby, Robert (1849-1918). Lecturer on comparative anatomy at Queen’s College and afterwards Professor of Medicine at Mason University College and the University of Birmingham, on his retirement he was appointed Emeritus professor.
4
Saundby’s letters have not been found.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP1806.1695)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Smith, Sam [2013-08-16] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-08-16] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2025-03-03]

Please cite as “WCP1806,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP1806