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WCP3788

Letter (WCP3788.3702)

[1]

July, 18891

Dr. Mr. Ward2

Hope you have received my book on Darwinism3 which I asked the American Publishers to send you. I have left my former house for a warmer locality and my future address will be

Parkstone

Dorsetshire

England.

Hoping you are quite well and thanking you for the very interesting paper you sent me on Paradoxes in Polit. Economy.4

Believe me | yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
In unknown handwriting. Postmarked on postcard dated 18 July 1889.
2
Ward, Lester Frank (1841-1913). American palaeobotanist and later professor of sociology.
3
Wallace, A. R. 1889. Darwinism: an exposition of the theory of natural selection with some of its applications. London & New York: Macmillan & Co.
4
Ward, Lester F. 1889. Social and Economical Paradoxes. American Anthropologist, vol. 2:2 (Apr.) pp. 119-132.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3788.3702)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Seo, Veri [2013-08-13] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-08-13] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP3788,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3788