WCP2291

Letter (WCP2291.2181)

[1]1

Cambridge, Mass[achusetts]. U.S.A.

19 October 1872.

Mr. A. R. Wallace,

Dear Sir.

I am enabled by the kind introduction of Prof[essor]. Leopold Noa,2 which I enclose, to gratify a desire I have cherished for some time: namely, to express my thanks to you for the pleasure and profit I have experienced in my studies through your agency. A remark which you made in one of your addresses before the Entomological Society quoted in one of our newspapers, led me to the reading of Mr. Spencer's "Principles of Biology."3 That book has been a revelation to me, brought up by association a believer, an unreasoning believer, almost, in special creation, for I had not yet had time enough in life to enter into the study of such generalities.

Will you have the kindness to accept the pamphlet which I mail with this note?4 and believe me

With great respect | B. Pickmann Mann [signature]

1
Annotated in the top right corner in pencil in an unknown hand "257".
2
Noa, Leopold. Professor of modern languages at Washington University c. 1872.
3
Spencer, Herbert. (1864 — 1867) Principles of Biology. 2 Voll. Williams and Norgate. London.
4
Possibly Mann, Horace. (1872). Catalogue of the phaenogamous plants of the United States, east of the Mississippi, and of the vascular cryptogamous plants of North America, north of Mexico. Second edition, with preface signed: B. Pickman Mann. 54 p. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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

Please cite as “WCP2291,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2291