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WCP3935

Letter (WCP3935.3874)

[1]1

42, GREAT RUSSELL STREET,

W.C.

27. 2 16

Dear Sir William2

You kindly read the letters I proposed using in the Wallace Bk when I sent them to you last year. I am sorry to trouble you again but I am uncertain (& so is Prof. Poulton3 who has read the proofs) about several reads & I am therefore sending you the proofs. I shld. be much obliged if you wld. make any necessary correction (avoiding the costs of printer as far as possible!) & returning them by earliest post. I am rather rushed in order to secure the American copyright for the family. I need not trouble you abt other letters again. Poulton has read them too.

Best thanks | yours faithfully | J. Marchant4 [signature]

I attach preface which you may like to see.

Prof Poulton has read these & likes them. May I call your attention to the stricture on Bates in p. 91. There is no harm in it but I shld. like you to read it again.

1
In Thistleton-Dyer’s handwriting, “returned 29.ii.16”.
2
Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner (1843-1928). Leading British botanist, and the third director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
3
Poulton, Edward Bagnall (1856-1943). British entomologist. Hope Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Jesus College.
4
Marchant, James (1857-1956). British eugenicist, social reformer and author. Biographer of ARW.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3935.3874)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Paterson, Gavin [2019-12-17] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP3935,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3935