WCP3271

Letter (WCP3271.3239)

[1]1, 2

Mar[ch] 17 1909

Dear Dr Wallace,

I am sorry to hear that you will not be coming to the Darwin Celebration3 here next June, though I can well understand your preference for your own quiet garden. My brother4 talks of coming over, with this Celebration as an excuse, if his doctor does not forbid it.5 and I imagine he will want to run down to Broadstone6 to see you.

If you have retained the manuscript of your address to the [2] Linnean Society last year7 would you be willing to send it for exhibition at Christ's College8 with various relics of Darwin? If you have parted with it please do not trouble to reply.

I am, with very kind regards, | Yours sincerely, | Sydney C. Cockerell [signature] 9

[3]10

1
Text in a different hand in the top left corner reads "Sent Mss[?] & Letters. March 22nd ".
2
Text in another hand in the top right corner reads "74".
3
On 22-24 June 1909 a celebration of the centenary of Darwin's birth and the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species was held in Cambridge. <http://darwin-online.org.uk/1909.html> [accessed 18 February 2015].
4
This may be Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866-1948). Zoologist. He was one of the four Cockerell brothers, a close friend of Wallace and author of a pamphlet The Darwin celebration at Cambridge (1910). <http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/archives/collections/CockerelllPapers.htm> [accessed 18 February 2015].
5
He suffered from tuberculosis and lived in Colorado, USA, at this time.
6
Wallace moved to Broadstone in Dorset in 1902, and lived there until his death in 1913.
7
Linnean Society. (1908).The Darwin-Wallace celebration held on Thursday, 1st July, 1908 by the Linnean society of London. Linnean Society, London. i-viii, 1-137 [pp.5-11]. <http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=A281&viewtype=text&pageseq=1>. [accessed 18 February 2015]. The Linnean Society is the world's oldest active biological society, founded in 1788.
8
An exhibition of Darwin memorabilia was held in Christ’s College, Cambridge, where Darwin had been a student from 1827-31.
9
There is a British Museum stamp in red ink to the right of the signature.
10
Text in a different hand reads "Syd Cockerell".

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3271.3239)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Ghosh, Susan [2015-02-24] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-02-24] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10]

Please cite as “WCP3271,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 1 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3271