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WCP2548

Letter (WCP2548.2438)

[1]

Linden

Wellington Som.

Mar 1. 67

My dear Mr Wallace

I send you the tickets for my lecture1on March 15 which you were good enough to ask for.

If you are going to have [2] any experiments on spirits while I am in town, that is from March 3rd to 22nd. or so, it would interest me much to be present.

Yours truly | E. B. Tylor2 [signature]

A R Wallace Esq

[3] P.S. My address will be care of W. H. Tylor3 Esq Stoke Newington, N.

[4]4

1
Tylor refers to his lecture 'On Traces of the Early Mental Conditions of Man' read at the Royal Institution of Great Britiain on 15 March 1867. (Tylor, E. B. 1867. On Traces of the Early Mental Conditions of Man. Notices of the Proceedings at Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution 5: 83-93).
2
Tylor, Willam Henry (c.1826-1909). British engineer and brother of Edward Burnett Tylor.
3
Tylor, Edward Burnett (1832-1917). British anthropologist and the founder of cultural anthropology.
4
In unknown handwriting, “E. B. Tylor”.

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Status: Edited (but not proofed) transcription [Letter (WCP2548.2438)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Cooper, Rod [2015-06-04] Transcription checked by Beros, Matt [2020-03-19] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP2548,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2548