WCP4739

Letter (WCP4739.5095)

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96 Disraeli Road

Putney. S.W.

Sept 23. '71

Dear M^r Wallace.

A MS for Academy¹ (you to do the best you can for it) should reach you with this.

Read it yourself — as it is part of a Zoological subject.

But send a single line in a card to say whether the paper has reached you — as I fear I directed it

Wallis.

having a correspondent of that name.

Ever y[ou]rs | R G Latham² [signature]

say, too, whether the note on "[prolific] [men]" appeared in Nature.

Not identified.

Latham, George Robert (1812-1888). English ethnologist and philologist.

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Record number: WCP4739
Item number: 5095
From: Robert Gordon Latham
To: Alfred Russel Wallace
Date: 23 September 1871
Sent from: 96 Disraeli Road, Putney, London, S.W., England
Sent to: [Holly House, Tanner Street, Barking, London, E., England]
Source of text: American Philosophical Society: Alfred Russel Wallace Collection MSS.B.W15a
Physical description: Letter, 1 p. of contemporary text
Hand: Handwritten in the author’s hand and signed by author
Language: English