WCP6153

Letter (WCP6153.7123)

[1]1

40 Sussex Square

Brighton

18 July 1915

Dear Mr Wallace2

I must apologise for having overlooked your letter. Here I am away from my possessions at home — I do not recollect sending that book of letters which your father mentions. When you wrote before I hunted up all the correspondence & I could [2] find no letters from your father either in the books of letters or in loose packets — all very much to my surprise. I will look again when I go north in a few days time & will gladly send you the letters if I should find them.

I am very sorry that I should have caused you trouble.

Yours sincerely | Lyell3 [signature]

1
The page is numbered WP16/1/95 [1 of 2] in pencil in the top RH corner.
2
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
3
Lyell, Leonard, 1st Baron Lyell (1850-1926), Scottish Liberal politician and nephew of the geologist Sir Charles Lyell, (1797-1875) a close friend of ARW, who contributed significantly to his thinking on the evolutionary process.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP6153.7123)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2018-08-15]

Envelope (WCP6153.7124)

Envelope addressed to "W. G. Wallace Esq, Tulgey Wood, Broadstone, Dorset", with stamp, postmarked "BRIGHTON | 7.- PM | 18 JUL 15"; postmark on back. [Envelope (WCP6153.7124)]

Please cite as “WCP6153,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 4 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6153