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From the CURATOR, PITT RIVERS MUSEUM
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
10. Dec[ember] 1946.
Dear Mr. Wallace,
May I add a personal letter to the official acknowledgement of your gift? It is a great pleasure to me to have this personal link with Benjamin Harrison2, of whom my teachers spoke often, for they knew him. And the name of Wallace, too, brings one back to the beginning of the new outlook. He came independently to the same conclusion as Darwin3.
We shall treasure these links with our past. I have always wanted a first-hand [2] connexion, rather than a second-hand one with these men.
Yours sincerely, | T. K. Penniman [signature]
The page is numbered [WP16/2/43] in pencil in the top RH corner.
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Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882) English naturalist and geologist, jointly with ARW originator of the theory of evolution by natural selection and author of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP6066.7016)]
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