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WCP2369

Letter (WCP2369.2259)

[1]

Marine Villa

Freshwater

Isle of Wight

Sept 14/78

My dear Sir,

I hear the M. S.1 of the Australia, duly reached Charing Cross, and your letter2 with List of Maps. and Chapters has been sent on to me here.

I fear that the method [2] of payment you suggest would not work. as on many of the expenses connected with the publication must be divided among the six volumes of the series and they will not all sell equally. but probably if I gave you a royalty on the selling price it would meet your views. [3] and you would then share according to the success of the book.

The price of the book at first will be 21/- but it may afterwards be desirable to make it less.

Will you think over this and let me hear from you, at your leisure.

Yours very faithfully | Edward Stanford3 [signature]

Alfred R. Wallace Esq

1
Wallace, A. R. ed. 1879. Australasia. Stanford’s compendium of geography and travel: based on Hellwald’s ‘Die Erde und ihre Völker’. Edited and extended by Alfred R. Wallace. With Ethnological appendix by A. H. Keane, M.A.I. London: Edward Stanford (Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel).
2
The letter has not been found.
3
Stanford, Edward (1827-1904). British publisher, mapmaker and bookseller.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP2369.2259)]

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Revision history

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

Please cite as “WCP2369,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2369