WCP5474

Letter (WCP5474.6205)

[1]1

Broadstone, Dorset

March 21st. 1903

J.B. Gilder Esq.

Dear Sir

Such a work as you suggest2 is out of my line, and not one which I could undertake.

I am however now writing a book of I think much greater interest, & I will ask my Agent Mr Curtis Brown3 to see you, if he has not already made arrangements for is publication in America.

Yours truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature] [2] 4

1

Annotated in pencil in an unknown hand to the left of the address "Wrote <E.?>H.D. 25.3.03. Ansd 1<1?> apl. 03 & wrote to Mr Brown".

2.

2
An asterisk (*) is written in pencil above "suggest" and at the bottom of the page in pencil in an unknown hand is the annotation "* predictions of the course of scientific discovery in 20th century".
3
Brown, Albert Curtis (1866-1945). American-born literary agent, London head from 1888 of the International Publishing Bureau and later founder of his own literary agency in London.
4
Page 2 of the letter is blank except for the following annotation near the bottom, in pencil, apparently in the same hand as that at the bottom of page 1 but different from that near the address (see endnotes 1 and 3): "It was ARW who "beat" Darwin to the discovery of the so-called "Darwinian theory."

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Please cite as “WCP5474,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP5474