Parkstone, Dorset
April 11th 1901
Francis Darwin Esq[uire]
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. Hooker 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’s paper was read in 1874. I give my reasons for dissenting from his views in my "Island Life" p. 426 (new ed[ition].)
I also send a Note 2 about Africa. | A. R. W. [signature]
[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. [signature]
Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP4077.4023)]
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Please cite as “WCP4077,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4077