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WCP2298

Letter (WCP2298.2188)

[1]

Rugby

Sep 18/73

Dear Sir,

May I ask you to write on the enclosed card of names of the "two well known works on "Physical Geography" you speak of in Nature.1

I am delighted that you have shewn up Page.2 His books, which I found in use here, & have tested elsewhere, are detestable.

yrs | JM Wilson3 [signature]

1
Wallace, A. R. 1873. Advanced text-book of physical geography. Nature 8 (210): 358-361.
2
Pages, David. 1873. Advanced Text-book of Physical Geography. Second and Enlarged Ed. Edinburgh and London: Blackwood.
3
Wilson, James Maurice (1836-1931). British headmaster and Church of England clergyman.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP2298.2188)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Anonymous [2018-08-15] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP2298,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2298