WCP3077

Letter (WCP3077.3045)

[1]1

Oxford

Sept. 21 1865 —

My dear Mr Wallace,

I send you herewith the comments2 with which my friend Dr Kay3 favoured me when I drew his attention to an Article in "The Reader" on missionary enterprizes which had the letter W appended to it.4 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 Rolleston [signature]

1
A pencil annotation "How to Civilize Savages" — In "Studies" (II p.176). is written at the top of page 1.
2
Willliam Kay's enclosed letter to George Rolleston has not been located.
3
Kay, William (1820-1886). British cleric, biblical scholar and principal of Bishop's College, Calcutta.
4

ARW's article published in The Reader was originally under the pseudonym 'W'' before an expanded version was published in his Studies Scientific and Social (1900). See Wallace, A. R. 1865. How to Civilize Savages. The Reader. 5 (17 June 1865). No 129. 671-72.

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

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