WCP4005

Letter (WCP4005.3948)

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5, Westbourne Grove Terrace. w.

April 2nd. 1864

Dear Newton

A friend of mine, Mr. Lewis Leslie1, is going to Cambridge next week to enter the university, & I have taken the liberty of giving him an introduction to you. He is a pleasant young fellow, but I am sorry to say utterly unconscious of Natural History. He intends [2] I believe becoming a country pastor, so I hope you may be able to inoculate him.

I hope shortly to come & pay you my long deferred visit. I have made a popular abstract2 of my paper at the Linnaen3 for the "Reader"4, & as it is not in this week I hope it will appear next, but they are so overwhelmed with matter that communications generally [3] have to wait a fortnight.

I had a note from Darwin5 the other day. He says the Doctors still tell him he will recover, — in the mean time he can only read and write by deputy, & in limited quantities.

With best wishes │ Believe me │Dear Newton│ Yours very sincerely | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Alfred Newton Esq.

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1
Leslie, Lewis John (1838-1873). British brother of ARW's fiancée Marion Leslie.
2
Wallace, A. R. 1864. Mr. Wallace on the phenomena of variation and geographical distribution as illustrated by the Malayan Papilionidae [abstract 16 April]. Reader 3: 491b-493b.
3
Wallace, A. R. 1865 [1864]. On the phenomena of variation and geographical distribution as illustrated by the Papilionidae of the Malayan region. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 25: pp. 1-71.
4
The Reader. A British weekly reviewing literature, science and art published from 1863-1867. Byrne, J. 1969. "The Reader": A Review of Literature, Science and the Arts, 1863-67. Victorian Periodicals Newsletter. 4: 47-50.
5
Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882). British naturalist, geologist and author, notably of On the Origin of Species (1859).
6
An ink annotation in the upper, left margin on an otherwise blank page reads "A. R. Wallace, London. April 2/4/64." "Answered April 6/64."

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Transcribed by Royce, Isobel [2012-10-29] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Costa, Leslie [2020-10-08]

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