WCP5026

Letter (WCP5026.5575)

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

Dec. 4th. 1890

Edward Westermarck Esq.1

Dear Sir

I shall be glad to read your chapter on "Sexual selection among Animals" if you think it will not be sufficient for me to read it in the proof. I shall be very glad to see you in a week or two, but at present my small house is being altered and the builders have hardly left us a room to inhabit.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

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Westermarck, Edvard [sic Edward] A (1862-1939). Anthropologist.

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Transcribed by Ball, Nicola [2014-07-28]

Published letter (WCP5026.5481)

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Decr. 4th. 1890.

Edw. Wastermarck, Esq.

Dear Sir

I shall be glad to read your chapter on »Sexual selection among Animals» if you think it will not be sufficient for me to read it in the proof. I shall be very glad to see you in a week or two, but at present my small house is being altered and the builders have hardly left us a room to inhabit.

Yours very truly

Alfred R. Wallace.

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Editor Charles H. Smith's Note: Second of fourteen letters from Wallace to Edward Westermarck, concerning the writing of the latter's The History of Human Marriage. These were included in the article "Letters From Edward B. Tylor and Alfred Russel Wallace to Edward Westermarck; Ed. With Introductory Remarks Concerning the Publication of The History of Human Marriage" by K. Rob. V. Wikman that appeared in 1940 as Acta Academiae Aboensis Humaniora XIII.7. The Wallace letters make up the second half of the work. Note that there are several apparent minor editing errors in the source material that I have not bothered to correct.

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Status: Draft transcription [Published letter (WCP5026.5481)]

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Transcribed by Smith, Charles Hyde [2013-02-06] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-02-08]

Please cite as “WCP5026,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP5026