WCP6209

Letter (WCP6209.7185)

[1]1

ST. HELEN’S COTTAGE,

ST. HELENS,

ISLE OF WIGHT

Sept[ember]. 6 / 1925

Dear Mr Wallace2,

Please excuse my long delay in answering your kind letter of Aug[ust]. 7. I have been unusually busy in preparing the papers I communicated at Zürich3 in July. Of course to a very busy man it is a relief to escape any correspondence, but it was a pleasure to write to you & your sister4 from time to time, remembering your father & all that [2] I owe him. I very much hope that we shall not lose sight of each other and that you will write to me when I can do anything for you. With kindest regards,

Yours sincerely | E. B. Poulton5 [signature]

1
The page is numbered WP16/1/115 in pencil in the top LH corner.
2
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
3
The Third International Congress of Entomology was held from 18-26 July 1925, at the University of Zürich, Switzerland.
4
Wallace, Violet Isabel (1869-1945) ARW’s daughter and sister of the recipient.
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 “WCP6209,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6209