Ɛpsilon

WCP3567

Letter (WCP3567.3466)

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Waldron Edge, Duppas Hill, Croydon.

August 11th 1878

Dear Bates1

Silk,2 who is staying with me, tells me you spoke to him about my editing a book for Dr.Bennett,3I presume D’Albertis’4travels in New Guinea. I should be very glad to do this,5 as I have just been writing a new chapter on New Guinea for Stanford’s6 Book.

Please inform Dr. Bennett if you see or write to him. I have heard nothing from Dr. B. Is Sigr. D’Albertis in London now? I should much like to see him.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

H. W. Bates Esq.

1
Bates, Henry Walter (1825-1892). British naturalist, explorer and close friend of ARW.
2
Silk, George (c. 1787- ). British attorney; father of ARW's friend George Charles Silk.
3
Bennett, Alfred William (1833-1902). British botanist and publisher.
4
D’Albertis, Luigi Maria (1841-1901). Italian naturalist and explorer, and the first person to chart the Fly River of Papua New Guinea in 1876.
5
Wallace, A. R. 1879. New Guinea and its inhabitants. Contemporary Review 34: 421-441.
6
Wallace, A. R. ed. 1879. Australasia. Stanford’s compendium of geography and travel: based on Hellwald’s ‘Die Erde und ihre Völker’. Edited and extended by Alfred R. Wallace, F.R.G.S., Author of the ‘Malay Archipelago,’ ‘Geographical distribution of animals,’ etc. With Ethnological appendix by A.H. Keane, M.A.I. London: Edward Stanford (Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel).

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Revision history

Transcribed by Clerx, William [2012-08-16] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP3567,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3567