WCP2044

Letter (WCP2044.1934)

[1]1

Answ[ere]d2

Herbarium, Royal Gardens

Kew.

Dec[ember]. 31, 1880

My Dear Mr. Wallace

I am reading with much interest and gratification your Island Life, and have gone nearly through the first part.

When treating of the general persistence of continents, you might have been glad to know that my countryman Prof[essor]. Dana, I think as early as the year 1845 (in an address as President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science), very strongly maintained this doctrine. I do not know if it is made prominent in his Geology.

The close of your Chapt[er]. [2] VII. pp. 119, 120, would so completely serve as an abstract of the gist of a published lecture of mine, which you once did me the honor to commend, that I should have been pleased if the coincidence of view had been referred to.

Believe me to be always Yours sincerely | Asa Gray [signature]

1
The document bears a British Museum stamp and has been annotated in pencil: 'Asa Gray'.
2
Annotated by Wallace across the top left-hand corner.

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Transcribed by Tzelios, Christie [2018-08-15]

Author’s draft (WCP2044.8166)

[1]1

My Dear Mr. Wallace

I am reading with much interest and gratification your Island Life, and have given much through the first part.

When treating of the general persistence of continents and oceans and citing pure geological [1 word illeg.] you might bemight have been glad to know that you have that of my countrman Prof. Lama & I think it was as early as the year 1845 that he said this own very simply in an affairs in print [?] of the [2 words illeg.] for "Convenience of Lama", I do not know if it is made prominet in his [1 word illeg.].

The close of your chapt, VIII, p. 119,120, would so completely save for an abstract of the upmost of a polished lecture of mine which you once did me the honor to command that I think have been pleased if you had referred to it this occasion.

Always sincerely yours,

[signature] A. Gray

1
Text in margins reads "gift of Susan Loring, 27 June 1984" and "after 1880?"

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Status: Draft transcription [Author’s draft (WCP2044.8166)]

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Transcribed by Sherwood, Danni [2020-06-02]

Please cite as “WCP2044,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2044