WCP3701

Transcription (WCP3701.3608)

[1]1

The Dell, Grays, Essex.

Sept 3rd — 1872

Dear Sir

I will send your MSS. to the Secretary of the Linnaean [sic] Socy. with my recommendation, & I have no doubt it will be received, read, & printed; — but not for some time as the session is now over till November.2 It cannot therefore come on for reading till about December & would be printed in about March in which case you would have 25 separate copies.

Could you not prepare a Map to illustrate it? In case you should not like to wait so long for its publication, I will not send it for a week or two as there is no hurry, & if you are likely to be in England again in the beginning of next year it would be better for you to read it yourself or be present as there would be sure to be a discussion.

Believe me | Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace —

(flourish)3

1
The TS from which this is transcribed has numerous words run together without spaces. This has been silently corrected. See also WCP3701.5469, a transcription of a publication of the same letter.
2
Gulick, J. T. 1873. On Diversity of Evolution under one set of External Conditions. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology. 11. 496-505. (Read Nov. 21, 1872).
3
Indicating the curled flourish usual beneath ARW's signature.

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Transcribed by Pearson, Keon [2013-07-19] Transcription checked by Lucas, Paula [2019-12-20]

Published letter (WCP3701.5469)

[1]1 [p. 235]

Alfred Russell Wallace to J. T. G.:

The Dell, Grays, Essex

Sept. 3, 1872

I will send your MS to the Secretary of the Linnean Society with my recommendation, and I have no doubt it will be received, read and printed but not for some time as the session is now over till November. It cannot therefore come on for reading till about December and would be printed in about March....

Could you not prepare a map to illustrate it? In case you should not like to wait so long for its publication I will not send it for a week or two, as there is no hurry, and if you are likely to be in England again in the beginning of next year it would be better for you to read it yourself or be present, as there would be sure to be a discussion.

1
Editor Charles H. Smith's Note: First of a pair of letters to John Thomas Gulick, sent fifteen years apart. These were printed on pages 235 and 403, respectively, of Addison Gulick's biography of his father, Evolutionist and Missionary John Thomas Gulick; Portrayed Through Documents and Discussions (1932).

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Published letter (WCP3701.5469)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Smith, Charles Hyde [2013-02-06] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-02-08]

Please cite as “WCP3701,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3701