WCP5032

Letter (WCP5032.5581)

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

April 13th. 1891

Dear Mr. Westermarck

I think your chapter on Sexual Selection will do very well now. I have given a few pencil notes of modifications which will I think be clearer & more accurate.

I like your discussion of the origin of universal repugnance to incest very much, & think you have solved the problem.

Yours very truly │ Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP5032.5581)]

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Transcribed by Munro, Rosemary [2014-06-18] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2014-06-18] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10]

Published letter (WCP5032.5487)

[1]1 [p. 18]

April 13th. 1891.

Dear Mr Westermarck

I think your Chapter on Sexual Selection will do very well now. I have given a few pencil notes of modifications which will I think be clearer and more accurate.

I like your discussion of the origin of universal repugnance to incest very much, and I think you have solved the problem.

Yours very truly

Alfred R. Wallace.

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Editor Charles H. Smith's Note: Eighth 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 (WCP5032.5487)]

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

Please cite as “WCP5032,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP5032