WCP2080

Letter (WCP2080.1970)

[1]1

10 Beaufort Gardens

S.W.

4 March 1867.

My dear Wallace,

Will you kindly let me know when and where I could have half an hour's conversation with you —2 If it would suit you & you can let me know in time, I would call on you tomorrow afternoon. I want to ask your cooperation in a series of Zoological Manuals which Macmillan the publisher [2] is prepared to bring out with myself as general editor. Bates3, Flower4 & Mivart5 have consented to engage themselves to do the Coleoptera, Mammalia & Reptilia with Amphibia, and I trust you may be disposed for an adequate remuneration to treat[?] the Lepidoptera6 —

Should you be unable to see me tomorrow perhaps you could meet me in Hanover Square at 2 oClock [sic] on Wednesday [3] should you feel inclined to regard the scheme with favour — It would be difficult by letter to enter more fully into details, but I may mention that, subject to some few general principles to be adopted for uniformity's sake, it is my wish that each author should treat his subject just as he liked — and that the sum to be paid for the Entomological Volumes would not be less than £100 each.

Believe me | Y[ou]rs very Truly | Alfred Newton. [signature]

1
ARW has numbered page 1 in blue crayon in the upper-left hand corner of the page. Page 1 is numbered page 26 by the repository. Every second subsequent page has a consecutive handwritten number written by the repository in the upper right-hand corner of the page.
2
A question-mark, or the number 2, is interlined above the dash, probably in Newton's hand.
3
Bates, Henry Walter (1825-1892). British naturalist, explorer and close friend of ARW.
4
Flower, William Henry (1831-1899). British comparative anatomist and surgeon. Director of the British Museum (Natural History).
5
Mivart, St. George Jackson (1827-1900). British physician, zoologist and Roman Catholic polemicist.
6
Moths and butterflies. ARW declined to undertake the work. See WCP4018.3961, ARW to Alfred Newton, 10 March 1867.

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Status: Edited (but not proofed) transcription [Letter (WCP2080.1970)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Gibbs, Rosie [2013-07-16] Transcription checked by Lucas, Paula [2019-12-20]

Please cite as “WCP2080,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2080