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WCP2982

Letter (WCP2982.2872)

[1]

NETHERBY,

12th May 1910

Dear Dr Wallace

My book "The Laws of Heredity"1 is coming out next week and I have asked the publisher to send you an early copy. I have thanked you in the preface for your Kindness — e.g. in the Fortnightly — and now do so again very heartily.

I dont [sic] know whether you will like the book. You may think it bumptious.

[2] The first chapter & what follows from it about mind may interest you. I dont think you will find the chapters on Mendelism & the mutation theory difficult reading — as you feared. Whether the book is good or bad [illeg.] I think on the question of method. I have tried to follow the method in which you & Darwin2 and I think everyone else who has done permanent good worked[.]

With Kind Regards | yours very sincerely | G. Archdall Reid3 [signature]

Please do not bother to answer this[.]

1
Reid, George Archdall O'Brien. 1910. The laws of heredity. London: Methuen & Co., Ltd.
2
Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882). British naturalist, geologist and author, notably of On the Origin of Species (1859).
3
Reid, George Archdall O'Brien (1860-1929). British physician, and a writer on public health and on the subject of evolution.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP2982.2872)]

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Transcribed by Benny, Ruth [2015-01-16] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-01-16] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP2982,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2982