WCP5027

Letter (WCP5027.5576)

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset

Dec[ember] 11th 18901

Edv[ard] Westermark Esq.2

Dear Sir,

I return you the first proof of your book3 with only one or two verbal alterations or suggestions.

Yours truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
Written under the date in an unidentified hand is the number "5117".
2
Westermarck, Edvard Alexander, (1862 — 1939). Finnish social anthropologist, philosopher, and sociologist.
3
Possible reference to his doctoral study The History of Human Marriage for which Westermark gained international acclaim. The book first appeared in 1891.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP5027.5576)]

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Revision history

Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2014-07-09] Transcribed by Hoare, Eleanor [2014-07-10] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10]

Published letter (WCP5027.5482)

[1]1[p. 14]

Decr. 11th. 1890.

Edw. Wastermarck, Esq.

Dear Sir

I return you the first proof the of your book with only one or two verbal alterations or suggestions.

Yours truly

Alfred R. Wallace.

1
Editor Charles H. Smith's Note: Third 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 (WCP5027.5482)]

For more information about the transcriptions and metadata, see https://wallaceletters.myspecies.info/content/epsilon

Revision history

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

Please cite as “WCP5027,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP5027