WCP5476

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

March 22nd. 1901

Prof[essor]. Silvanus P. Thompson

Dear Sir

I write to ask if you will allow me to have copies of a few of the cuts in your Elementary Lessons in Electricity & Magnetism¹, to illustrate a chapter describing the main features of Electrical progress during the century for a new edition of Wonderful Century.²

Those I wish to use are given on [the] other side. If you have no objection I will [2] ask Macmillan to let me have electros of them.

Your old pupil, William G. Wallace, after 3 years work & play in America, which he greatly enjoyed, is now at Newcastle-on-Tyne working for one of the new American London firms at Power Installation.

I was very much pleased some months since to find that you , like myself, are opposed to this horrible S. African War

Believe me | Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature] [3]

Illustrations from Thompson[']s Elementary Lessons in Electricity & Magnetism — Edition 1985.

Fig. 107 — page 182

"67 — "109

"68 —"110

"71 —"112

"72 —"112

"132 —"217

"245 —"480

"166 —"308

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Alfred Russel Wallace re Use of Cuts for new book.