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WCP4131

Letter (WCP4131.4148)

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

May 22nd. 1892

E. Clodd1 Esq.

Dear Sir

I return you the letters you were so good as to lend me with many thanks. If when you have done with them they are not wanted by Mr. Bates2 family I would much like to have them, as there are many passages in there I may want to quote if I should write an autobiography. In whose possession are they? If they will not be given up then, in a month or so I would like to [2] have them again to copy some parts.

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

P.S. It seems strange that I have not kept any of Bates’ letters, but I have no memory of them, & have moved so much about that I fear they may have gone with waste paper. I am now busy with Exns3 but in two or three weeks I will have a look again.

A.R.W.

1
Clodd, Edward (1840-1930). British banker, writer and anthropologist.
2
Bates, Henry Walter (1825-1892). British naturalist, explorer and close friend of ARW.
3
See Wallace’s ‘My experiences as an examiner’ in Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. Volume 2, pp. 406-418.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP4131.4148)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Watkins Sophia [2012-08-16] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP4131,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4131