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WCP3508

Letter (WCP3508.3398)

[1]1

Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne.

Novr. 10th. 1908

Messrs. Macmillan & Co.2

Dear Sirs

Thanks for your congratulations.

In reply to your Enquiry, I have no objection to have O.M. after my name — but if so I should like F.R.S. to follow it, especially as that Society has given me their "Copley Medal"3 this year.

I have now returned the corrected proofs of Index &c.

There has been great delay [2] lately in sending me revise of Biog. Introduction &c.. 3 weeks or a month, but I suppose printers are extra busy at this season.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
Oval stamp, “G.B.M.”, date stamped “11 NOV 1908”.
2
Macmillan, Frederick Orridge (1851-1936). Eldest son of Daniel Macmillan, a founding partner in the bookselling and publishing firm of Macmillan & Co.
3
In 1908 Wallace was awarded the Royal honour of the Order of Merit, the Royal Society's Copley Medal "for outstanding achievement in any branch of science" and the Linnean Society of London's first Darwin-Wallace Medal for "major advances in evolutionary biology".

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Revision history

Transcribed by Lucas, Paula [2014-02-24] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2014-02-25] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP3508,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3508