WCP2425

Letter (WCP2425.2315)

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Mowbray House

Norfolk St, Strand

London.

September 17th, 1890.

The Review of Reviews

Edited by W.T. Stead1

Telephone No. 2867.

Telegrams, "Vatican, London."2

A. R. Wallace Esp.,

Parkson, t,

Dorset.

Dear Mr Wallace,

I am exceedingly sorry that you should think I have done you an injustice in terms of my reference to your article.

On looking over it, I see it would have been better if I had said that you reviewed the articles on the subject of the Improvement of the Race, in the summaries of which appeared in the recent numbers of the REVIEW. I see it may be read to imply as it stands that you had only read the Summaries, which it was not my intention to convey. You will see that the alteration of the position of the two words will make all the difference. If you like I will be happy to explain this in the next number, but, probably, few readers would notice the difference between the corrected version and that to which you take exception.

I am, | Yours very truly, W.T.Stead3

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This line of text is printed and placed above the address.
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These two lines of text are also printed, but placed on the left of the address.
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Seal of the British Museum.
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This page has a pencil drawing of what looks like a garden gate on the top half of the page. On the lower half of the page is what looks like a wood panel box or door with two diagonal beams crossing over a series of horizontal ones within a frame. Some calculations have been done beside this second picture.

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Transcribed by Dyke, Toby [2015-05-01] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-05-01] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10]

Please cite as “WCP2425,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2425