WCP4956

Letter (cc) (WCP4956.5392)

[1]1

2nd February [189]82

Dear Sir

The Printers are quite ready to machine your book3 if you can return the last proofs to press.

We have this morning sent you revises [sic] of the Descriptive Letter press machines with the Diagrams. Please return these too at your earliest convenience —

Yours truly | HW [signature in initials]4

D[octo]r. A. R. Wallace

1
The page is stamped "427". The letter bears no heading, but originates from ARW’s London publisher Swan Sonnenschein & Co., founded in 1878 by William Swan Sonnenschein (1855-1931).
2
Year inferred from context.
3
Wallace A. R. (1898). The Wonderful Century; Its Successes and Its Failures London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co.
4
Author not identified, but presumably an employee of the publishing house.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (cc) (WCP4956.5392)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2018-08-15]

Please cite as “WCP4956,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 11 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4956