WCP6208

Letter (WCP6208.7184)

[1]1

Wykeham House:

Oxford

Oct[ober] 27 / 1923

Dear Mr Wallace2,

Will you very kindly look through the proof of what I have written for the R[oyal]. S[ociety]3.? I have only corrected the first column & from that experience I am sure there are many very stupid mistakes in the rest. But you will allow for these in a an uncorrected first proof. There is no immediate hurry I feel sure. I have a second copy. I am sure the Society [2] will wish to have a portrait. Will you kindly tell me which one you advise? Please criticize quite freely if there is anything which you would prefer being put differently; but I think you will feel that I have thought very carefully over everything that I have written here.

With kind R regards and hoping that you are well, | Yours sincerely, | E. B. Poulton4 [signature]

1
The page is numbered WP16/1/114 in pencil in the top LH corner.
2
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
3
Learned society for Science founded in November 1660 and granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II. This relates to the obituary of ARW for the Society on the centenary of his death, written by the author (see WCP6207). ARW was elected a Fellow in 1893.
4
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 “WCP6208,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6208