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WCP4458

Letter (WCP4458.4765)

[1]

Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Dorset.

June 22 1913

My dear Poulton1

Thanks for your very kind enquiries after my wife’s2 health — she is, I am glad to say, improving, though very slowly.

I send you my first letter3 to Mr Miller4 which was returned to me through the ‘dead letter’ office and which you can return to him if you think it advisable. [2] 2. I think I told you before that I quite agree that the book5 should be presented to the Linnean Society.

Yours very truly6| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
Poulton, Edward Bagnall (1856-1943). British entomologist. Hope Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Jesus College.
2
Wallace (née Mitten), Annie (1846-1914). British. Wife of ARW; daughter of William Mitten.
4
miller, Ben R. has not been identified.
5
A pamphlet by George Washington Sleeper which anticipated the idea of evolution through natural selection and also the germ theory of disease. Poulton later reported in his presidential address to the Linnean Society of 25 May 1914 that the Sleeper document was a hoax.
6
The letter was written in the hand of WGW.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP4458.4765)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Lord, Annette [2012-07-19] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Envelope (WCP4458.4766)

Envelope addressed to "Prof. E. B. Poulton F.R.S. &c, Wykeham House, Oxford", with stamp, postmarked "BROADSTONE WIMBORNE| 8.30PM | JU 22 | 13". Note on front of envelope in Poulton's hand: "June 22. 1913 and Jan 18. 1903 to B. R. Miller"; postmark on back. [Envelope (WCP4458.4766)]

Please cite as “WCP4458,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4458