WCP2234

Letter (WCP2234.2124)

[1]

39, Paternoster Row, London E. C.

Dec[embe]r 16 1869

My dear Sir,

The Proprietors of the Journal of Science1 have much pleasure in giving their consent to your republishing your article in that Journal, which appeared in Oct. 1867,2 in your forthcoming volume of Essays,3 provided you [2] acknowledge the source from which it is taken. I presume you have already arranged with a Publisher.

I read your Travels4 with intense interest & never cease telling people to get it. I think it the [3] best book of Travels that has appeared for a long time. I have always worked at Natural History & Insects were my special study. I should greatly like to see your collections some day & especially I want to look at the magnificent [4] Ornithoptera[.]

Believe me | Yours truly | Wm Longman [signature]

Alfred Wallace Esq

1
The Quarterly Journal of Science was founded in 1864 by William Crookes and James Samuelson. Crookes became sole editor from 1870 and the journal diverged from its former Review model and became a vehicle of popular science for a well-educated readership. In 1878 Crookes sold the monthly under the title Journal of Science and he remained on its editorial board until the journal became defunct in 1885. (Brake, L. & Demoor. 2009. Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism. Ghent: Academia Press. p.154)
2
Wallace, A. R. 1867. Creation by Law. Quarterly Journal of Science. 4: 471-488.
3
The newly published version of 'Creation by Law' was "reprinted with a few additions and alteration". See Wallace, A. R. 1870. Creation by Law. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection. London, UK: Macmillan & Co. pp.264-302.
4
Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago; the Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise, 2 vols. London, UK: Macmillan.

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Transcribed by Benny, Ruth [2015-02-03] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-02-03] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10] Transcription checked by Beros, Matt [2020-09-15]

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