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WCP542

Letter (WCP542.542)

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[in ARW’s hand] Ackd

194 Shelbourne Road

Bournemouth

Jan. 8th 1913.

Dear Sir,

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

If the "Daily Citizen"1 is correct, the Landowners in the Liberal Party are making a dead set against Mr. Lloyd George's2 land policy; & there may be a "Liberal Split."

I hope you will complete the volume on which you are engaged.3

May I on enclosed P.C. have your autograph to be attached inside your "Darwinism"4 which I so much value?

Yours faithfully | H. Kidner5 (F.G.S) [signature]

Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace.

1
Anon. 1913. [An interview] Reformer at Ninety. Dr. Wallace on the Workers’ Cause. "Feel Like Fifty." [Late London Edition] Daily Citizen (9 January): 1.
2
Lloyd-George, David (1863-1945). British Liberal politician. Prime Minister 1916-1922.
3
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.
4
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.
5
Kidner, H. (-). Writer. Fellow of the Geograpical Society.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP542.542)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Sarvis, Nicole Mary [2014-10-07] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2014-10-07] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2024-11-11]

Please cite as “WCP542,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP542