WCP2523

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Mariemont,

Edgbaston

17 October 1913.

Dear Dr Wallace,

I heartily appreciate your kindness in writing² to me about my B. A. Address, of which I believe I sent you a copy. I had no idea that I was using an illustration which you had already employed. There is often a good deal of this similarity of idea, which is not real plagiarism, and I am sure you would not for a moment think so. It is to me always interesting when the [2] same notion occurs to several minds who have arrived at it from somewhat different points of view.

I have pleasure in sending you, under separate cover, a copy of my Romanes Lecture³at Oxford in 1903.

I have, as everyone has, a great admiration for your life and work. But I do not remember ever having seen your volume "The World of Life".⁴ I shall refer to it, and to the passage you indicate.

Meanwhile I thank you for writing, and am

Cordially & faithfully yours | Oliver J. Lodge⁵ [signature]