WCP4102

Letter (WCP4102.4063)

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9. St. Mark's Crescent N.W.

Wednesday. [19 June 1867]2

Dear Darwin

I am very sorry I was out when you called yesterday. Had just gone to the Zool[ogical]. Gardens, and I met Sir. C. Lyell3 who told me you were in Town.

If you should have time to go to Bayswater I think you would be pleased to see the Collections which I have displayed there in the form of an Exhibition (though the public will not go to see it.)4 If you can [2] go with any friends I should like to meet you there, if you can appoint a time.

I am glad to find you continue in tolerable health.

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

Charles Darwin Esq.

[3] What do you think of the Duke of Argyll's5 Criticisms,6 and the more pretentious one in the last number of the N[orth]. British Rev[iew].?7

Have written a little article answering them both, but I do not yet know where to get it published.8

A.R.W. [signature]

Page [[1]] is numbered "41" in the top right corner, and page [[3]] similarly numbered "42", apparently by the repository. Page [[2]] is not numbered.
Dated by DCP.
Lyell, Charles (1797-1875). British lawyer and geologist.
ARW's collection of bird skins and butterflies were on display at Thomas Sims & Co. photographic gallery, in Bayswater, West London. [Wallace. A. R. 1905. My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions. London: Chapman & Hall. 2 vols. 1: pp. 404-405].
Campbell, George John Douglas (1823-1900). Scottish politician and scientist, eighth Duke of Argyll in the peerage of Scotland. Leader in the scholarly opposition against Darwinism.
Argyll, the Duke of [Campbell, George Douglas]. 1867. The Reign of Law. London: Alexander Strahan.
Unsigned [Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming]. 1867 [Review of] The Origin of Species. North British Review 46 (June): 277-318. [The Victorian Web. Johnston, Ian, Wyhe, John Van and Landow, George P. c 2008. Review of The Origin of Species (1867). Fleeming Jenkin. <http://www.victorianweb.org/science/science_texts/jenkins.html> [accessed 17 Oct. 2019].
ARW's review of Argyll's The Reign of Law (see note 6).

Transcription (WCP4102.4408)

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To C.Darwin.) 9,St.Mark's Crescent, N.W. Wednesday. (1867)?

Dear Darwin I was very sorry I was out when you called yesterday. I had just gone to the Zool. Gardens, and I met Sir.C.Lyell, who told me you were in Town.

If you should have time to go to Bayswater I think you would be pleased to see the collections which I have displayed there in the form of an Exhibition (though the public will not go to see it.)

If you can go with any friends I should like to meet you there if you can appoint a time.

I was glad to find you continue in tolerable health.

Believe me Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace.

What do you think of the Dike of Argyll's criticisms, and the more pretentious one in the last Number of the N.British Rev.?2

I have written a little article answering them both, but I do not yet know where to get it published. A.R.W.

Page is numbered (1), later struck out.
A pencilled note here states: [June 1867]

Transcription (WCP4102.4521)

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To C. Darwin.) 9, St. Mark’s Crescent, N.W. Wednesday. (1867)?1

Dear Darwin

I am very sorry I was out when you called yesterday. I had just gone to the Zool[ogical] Gardens, and I met Sir. C. Lyell2, who told me you were in Town.

If you should have time to go to Bayswater3 I think you would be pleased to see the collections which I have displayed there in the form of an Exhibition (though the public will not go to see it.)

If you can go with any friends I should like to meet you there if you can appoint a time.

I am glad to find you continue in tolerable health.

Believe me | Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace.

What do you think of the Duke of Argyll’s4 criticisms, and the more pretentious one in the last Number of the N[orth] British Rev[iew]5?

I have written a little article answering them both, but I do not yet know where to get it published. A.R.W.

Date uncertain.
Renowned mid-nineteenth century geologist.
West London in the City of Westminster.
George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll. Leader in the scholarly opposition against Darwinism.
Founded in 1844 by members of the Free Church of Scotland. Ceased publication in 1871.

Published letter (WCP4102.5964)

[1] [p. 187]

9 St. Mark's Crescent, N.W.

Wednesday, [August or September, 1867]

Dear Darwin,—I am very sorry I was out when you called yesterday. I had just gone to the Zoological Gardens, and I met Sir. C. Lyell1, who told me you were in town.

If you should have time to go to Bayswater, I think you would be pleased to see the collections which I have displayed there in the form of an exhibition (though the public will not go to see it).

If you can go, with any friends, I should like to meet you there if you can appoint a time.

I am glad to find you continue in tolerable health.—Believe me yours very faithfully,

Alfred R. Wallace

What do you think of the Duke of Argyll's criticisms, [2] [p. 188] and the more pretentious one in the last number of the North British Review?

I have written a little article answering them both, but I do not yet know where to get it published.— A. R. W.

Lyell, Charles (1797-1875). British geologist and author, notably of the influential Principles of Geology (1830-1833). President of the Geological Society of London, 1835-7 and 1849-51.

Please cite as “WCP4102,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4102