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WCP4737

Letter (WCP4737.5093)

[1]

Proper cast[?] written for June 18/691

Wallace AR2

9, St Mark's Crescent | N.W.3

Thursday

Messrs. Macmillan & Co4

Dear Sirs

Dr. Henry Lawson5 the Editor of "Scientific Opinion"6 — writes me that you have sent the vignette instead of the frontispiece of Orang,7 — which he asked for as you will see by referring to my letter on the subject. He also begs you to send a copy of the Book as the Proprietors will not allow a review of any books not sent them to appear.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Proper cast[?] & copy of book sent June 21/698

1
This note, written obliquely in the top left-hand corner of the page, is probably written and dated (i.e., 18 June 1869) by the recipient.
2
'Wallace AR' is written at the top of the page, not in ARW's hand and is probably written for filing or reference purposes.
3
In Regent's Park N.W., ARW's residence from March 1865-6/20 July 1867 and early July 1868-22 March 1870.
4
A London-based publishing firm founded in 1848. Publisher of ARW's The Malay Archipelago.
5
Lawson, Henry (1840-1877). British physician and editor of the Popular Science Review, Monthly Microscopical Journal, and Scientific Opinion.
6
A short-lived British scientific journal (1868-1870). See Barton, R. 1998. Just before Nature: the purposes of science and the purposes of popularization in some English popular science journals of the 1860s. Annals of Science. 55: 1-33.
7
ARW is referring to his recently published book, Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise, 2 vols. London: Macmillan & Co.
8
This note, written vertically in the left-hand margin, has been made by the recipient in response to ARW's request.

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Revision history

Transcribed by Cooper, Rod [2013-02-05] Transcription checked by Lucas, Paula [2020-06-09]

Please cite as “WCP4737,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4737