WCP4077

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset

April 11th 1901

Francis Darwin¹ Esq

Dear Mr Darwin

Thanks for sending me the letters. I have not the slightest objection to your printing my letters. I send you a note on the glacial epoch remark, as it would be misunderstood without explanation. Did Sir J. Hooker² reply to that letter? If so it would be interesting to give it.

I have looked for the missing letter, but strange to say I cannot lay my hand on the largest part of your father’s letters, those later than 1870. They must have got [2] put away among my endless accumulations of old papers, during some of the inevitable cleanings up. But if I find them I will let you have the letter.

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

P. S. Blandford’s³ paper was read in 1874. I give my reasons for dissenting from his views in my "Island Life"⁴ p. 426 (new ed.)

I also send a Note 2 about Africa. | A. R. W.

[3] I am so puzzled about not finding the letters that it occurs to me you may possibly have not returned them. But I really do not remember whether you had them again for the new book or whether you had already copied them all, in which case of course I must have got them.

A. R. W.