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WCP3077

Letter (WCP3077.3045)

[1]1,2

Oxford

Sept. 21 1865 —

My dear Mr Wallace,

I send you herewith the comments with which my friend Dr Kay3 favoured me when I drew his attention to an Article in "The Reader"4 on Missionary Enterprizes which had the letter W appended to it. Dr Kay is in the principal of a Theological College in Calcutta & is at present recruiting in England. I do not recollect whether I told him that I suspected that W mean you or not. He is a very good fellow kind hearted and everything estimable. But his work in India has I think put him a little outside of the current of English thinking, and perhaps made him seem less attractive than his friends know him to be—

I am yours very truly | George Rolleston5 [signature]

1
In ARW’s handwriting, added later, "How to Civilize Savages" — See "Studies" (II p.176)”.
2
Wallace, A. R. 1900. Studies scientific and social. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. And New York: The Macmillan Co. Volume 2.
3
Kay, William (1820-1886). British cleric, biblical scholar and principal of Bishop's College, Calcutta.
4
“W”. 1865. How to Civilize Savages. The Reader, vol. 5 (17 June), pp. 671-672. Later expanded in Studies Scientific and Social (1900).
5
Rolleston, George (1829-1881). British physician and zoologist.

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Revision history

Transcribed by Prashar-Savoie, Anjali [2015-04-07] Transcription checked by Beros, Matt [2020-03-19] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP3077,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3077