WCP4365

Letter (WCP4365.4601)

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Frith Hill, Godalming.

March 3rd. 1889

My dear Mr. Poulton

Many thanks for your kind invitation, which I may perhaps accept for a day or two if I can manage it, — but my health is but poorly and I hardly feel up to paying visits.

I hear there has been a discussion in the Pall Mall — Huxley, Auberon Herbert, & Ray Lankester — a triangular duel — but unfortunately the first & last of these at all [2] events know absolutely nothing of the subject they venture to write about. In any new experimental research Crookes’ 5 years work may be supposed to outweigh 5 hours, even if those 5 hours were devoted to the subject by Huxley & Ray Lankester!

If we meet I shall be quite pleased to have a talk on the matter.

Yours faithfully| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

My book is approaching the end.

Envelope (WCP4365.4602)

Envelope addressed to "E. B. Poulton Esq., Wykeham House, Oxford", with stamp, postmarked "GODALMING | B | MR 4 | 89"; postmark on back. [Envelope (WCP4365.4602)]

Please cite as “WCP4365,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4365