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TO SIR FRANCIS DARWIN1
Frith Hill, Godalming.2 November 20, 1887.
Dear Mr. Darwin, — Many thanks for the copy of your father's "Life and Letters,"3 which I shall read with very great interest (as will all the world). I was not aware before that your father had been so distressed — or rather disturbed — by my sending him my essay from Ternate,4 and I am very glad to feel that his exaggerated sense of honour was quite needless so far as I was concerned, and that the incident did not in any way disturb our friendly relations. I always felt, and feel still, that people generally give me far too much credit for my mere sketch of the theory — so [2] very small an affair as compared with the vast foundation of fact and experiment on which your father worked. —
Believe me yours very faithfully, ALFRED R. WALLACE.
ARW lived in Nutwood Cottage, Frith Hill, Godalming from 1881 to 1889.
Beccaloni, G. W. 2018. Wallace Timeline. Timeline of places and houses where Wallace lived. The Alfred Russel Wallace Website. <http://wallacefund.info/wallace-timeline#> [accessed 27 September 2019].
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