WCP6205

Letter (WCP6205.7180)

[1]1

Wykeham House:

Oxford

May 5 / 1921

Dear Mr Wallace2,

The C[ommitt]ee3 had already and at once wished to help & asked me to act for them. So I sent the £50 : 0 : 0 which was the sum they voted. The nursing, surgeon’s fee & other incidental expenses will doubtless come to more than this. Will you kindly send a receipt — (received from me on behalf of the Scientific Relief Committee of the Royal Society4) for their accounts?

[2]

I quite understood your letter, & felt sure your hesitation was because the conditions circumstances had not been made clear.

It is a great pleasure to me to do anything that will help you. I often think of the many delightful times when I was with your father & of our long correspondence & the pleasure it gave me.

With kindest regards, | Yours sincerely, | E. B. Poulton5 [signature]

1
The page is numbered WP16/1/111 in pencil in the top RH corner.
2
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
3
Scientific Relief Committee of the Royal Society (see Endnote 4) set up in 1859 "to promote the establishment of a permanent fund for the aifd of such scientific men, or their families, as may from time to time require and deserve assistance". It was intended to supply prompt relief to those in need, but did not debar continuation of relief if sufficient funds were available.
4
Learned society for Science founded in November 1660 and granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II. ARW was elected a Fellow in 1893.
5
Poulton, Edward Bagnall (1856-1943) British evolutionary biologist, friend of ARW and lifelong advocate of natural selection. He did pioneering work on warning or protective colouration in animals and became Hope Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford in 1893.

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

Please cite as “WCP6205,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6205