WCP3819

Letter (WCP3819.3737)

[1]

Pen-y-Bryn1, St. Peter’s Road, Croydon.

August 21st. 1880

My dear Sir Joseph2

I wish to do myself the pleasure of dedicating my new book3 to you, to which I trust you will have no objection.

I enclose a proof of the Title-page, Dedication, & Contents, which please return at your earliest convenience.

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

Sir Joseph Hooker F.R.S. &c.

1
ARW referred to the house he rented between 1880 and May 1881 as "Pen-y-Bryn". The house would later be numbered 44.
2
Great 19th century British botanist and explorer Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, KCB, FRS (1817 — 1911). Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and one of Charles Darwin’s closest friends. Hooker, along with Charles Lyell, played a vital role in the relatively peaceful co-publication of Darwin and Wallace’s papers on the theory of evolution by natural selection in 1858.
3
In 1880 ARW published Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates, a sequel to his 1876 text The Geographic Distribution of Animals.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3819.3737)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Clerx, William [2013-01-08] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15]

Please cite as “WCP3819,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 2 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3819