WCP542

Letter (WCP542.542)

[1]1

194 Shelbourne Road

Bournemouth

[Dorset]

Jan[uary]. 8th 1913.

Dear Sir,

My respectful & hearty congratulations on your 90th birthday. Wonderful; may you see many more.

If the "Daily Citizen"2 is correct, the Landowners in the Liberal Party are making a dead set against Mr. Lloyd George's3 land policy; & there may be a "Liberal Split."

I hope you will complete the volume on which you are engaged.4

May I on enclosed P[ost].C[ard]. have your autograph to be attached inside your "Darwinism"5 which I so much value?

Yours faithfully | H. Kidner [F.G.S] [signature]

Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace.

1
Annotated on the upper left of the page "Ackd."
2
The Daily Citizen was a labour-leaning, union-backed newspaper produced 1912-1914.
3
George, David Lloyd- (1863 -1945) British Liberal politician. Chancellor of the Exchequer 1908 — 1915; Prime Minister 1916 — 1922.
4
Probably either Wallace, Alfred Russel. (1913). Social Environment and moral progress. Cassell & Co., Ltd, London, New York, Toronto & Melbourne; or The revolt of democracy. Cassell & Co., Ltd. London, New York, Toronto & Melbourne, published in the same year.
5
Wallace, Alfred Russel (1889 and later editions up to 1905) Darwinism; An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection With Some of Its Applications. Macmillan & Co., London & New York.

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Transcribed by Sarvis, Nicole Mary [2014-10-07] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2014-10-07] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10]

Please cite as “WCP542,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP542