WCP2639

Letter (WCP2639.2529)

[1]1

29, DELAMERE TERRACE,

WESTBOURNE SQUARE. W.2

20. 11. [18]82

My dear Sir

I am to express from my colleagues in New York3 their very warm appreciation and admiration of the article4 with which you have favoured us. A revise will be in your hands very shortly.

Will you favour me by signing5 and returning the receipt on the opposite [2] page, and by accepting the enclosed cheque for thirty pounds?

Yours very Truly | Edmund W. Gosse6 [signature]

Alfred R Wallace Esq[uire].

1
Text in another hand in the top right corner reads "53".
2
Edmund Gosse’s home in north London. The address is printed in red ink.
3
Probably colleagues at The Century Magazine. Since its inception in New York in 1881, Gosse had been The Century Magazine's first London agent and his American connections were always important to him. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
4
This may be Wallace’s article published in January 1883, The Debt of Science to Darwin. The Alfred Russel Wallace Page, S358: 1883. <http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S358.htm>.
5
The first letter "i" is extended and blotched.
6
There is a British Museum stamp in red ink next to the salutation.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP2639.2529)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Ghosh, Susan [2015-05-21] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-05-21] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10]

Please cite as “WCP2639,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2639