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WCP4129

Letter (WCP4129.4146)

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Broadstone, Wimborne.

July 9th. 1905

Edwd. Clodd1 Esq.

Dear Sir

Thanks for your note. I think the poem I refer to was much stronger & more direct than "A Prayer"— in "The Lower Slopes"2— I think too it was blank verse. I have written to Mr. J. Lane3 for further information.

Ever since you kindly sent me my few letters to Bates4 (which have been [2] very useful to me) I have been working at Autobiography,5 which is now nearly finished, & is to be published by Chapman & Hall.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
Clodd, Edward (1840-1930). British banker, writer and anthropologist.
2
Allen, Grant. 1894. The Lower Slopes: Reminiscences of Excursions Round the Base of Helicon, Undertaken for the Most Part in Early Manhood. E. Mathews and John Lane.
3
Lane, John (1854-1925). British publisher who co-founded The Bodley Head with Charles Elkin Mathews.
4
Bates, Henry Walter (1825-1892). British naturalist, explorer and close friend of ARW.
5
Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman & Hall. Two volumes.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP4129.4146)]

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Transcribed by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-07-03] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP4129,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4129