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WCP3661

Letter (cc) (WCP3661.3564)

[1]

31st May, 1915.

Dear Sir,1

In further reply to your letter2 of the 6th May:

I send you a statement which has been drawn up by our librarian on further exploration in the region of Rio Negro which has been carried out since your father's time. Something in addition has been done as you will see, but I am assured by authorities on the region that your father's work still holds good.

I hope that the enclosed statement will be of service to Mr. Marchant3 who is writing your father's biography.

Dr. H. S. [sic] Forbes4 who is an authority on the Malay Archipelago, will I hope return to you directly with reference to your fathers [sic] work in that part of the world. I have not had time to look up any correspondence which we may have had with your father, but shall do so as soon as possible, and if there is anything likely to be of use will let you have it.

Yours very truly, [John Scott Keltie]5

W. G. Wallace, Esq.

1
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951). Son of ARW.
3
Marchant, James (1857-1956). British eugenicist, social reformer and author. Biographer of ARW.
4
Forbes, Henry Ogg (1851-1932). British explorer, ornithologist and botanist. Forbes coordinated and led the Liverpool and British Museums joint expedition to Socotra and Abd al Kuri in 1898–1899.
5
Keltie, John Scott (1840-1927). Scottish geographer, Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, London.

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Transcribed by Congerton, John [2019-01-08] Transcription checked by Congerton, John [2019-01-08] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP3661,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3661