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WCP4557

Letter (WCP4557.4864)

[1]

Broadstone, Wimborne

June 23rd. 1908

My dear Meldola1

Many thanks for your kind invitation. I have however pretty well decided to come up for the day only, as there are very convenient trains and it will altogether save me in fatigue & worry. I have past the age of sight-seeing & the sooner I get back home the happier I shall be.

[2] But, as I told you, if anything should induce me to alter my plans (which is not likely) I have promised Dresser2 to stay with him. When I did so I had not the least idea of ever coming to London again, and I think nothing but such an occasion as this would have brought me.

Yours very sincerely| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

[3] P.S. Very Private & Quite confidential!

I suppose I have to thank either yourself or Poulton3 for this quite "outrageous" attempt to put me on a level with Darwin!4 If I live through it, I shall have something to say on this point!!

A.R.W.

1
Meldola, Raphael (1849-1915). British chemist and entomologist.
2
Dresser, Henry Eeles (1838-1915). British businessman and ornithologist.
3
Poulton, Edward Bagnall (1856-1943). British entomologist. Hope Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Jesus College.
4
Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882). British naturalist, geologist and author, notably of On the Origin of Species (1859).

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP4557.4864)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Lord, Annette [2012-07-23] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP4557,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4557