WCP6213

Letter (WCP6213.7189)

[1]1

ST. HELEN’S COTTAGE,

ST. HELENS,

ISLE OF WIGHT

5. IV.1928

Dear Mr Wallace2,

I am sending you a little note on this historic episode. It is curious that new little points should still turn up about it. I have been very remiss in not writing before to thank you for your letter and the photograph of your children3. I was so pleased to have them. I have been most dreadfully busy: indeed as time goes on I seem to have more & [2] more to do. Still, it is the right thing I believe. "Many Happy returns and lots of work!" as your father wrote to me once.

With kindest regards & hoping that you are all4 well,

Yours very sincerely, | E. B. Poulton5. [signature]

1
The page is numbered WP16/1/119 in pencil in the top LH corner. The words "Ack[knowledge]d April 12 /28. W.G.W." are written in ink in the recipient’s hand in the bottom LH corner.
2
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
3
Wallace, Alfred John Russel (1922- ) and Wallace, Richard Russel (1924- ), sons of William Greenell Wallace.
4
Wallace, Elizabeth Carr (neé Whittle) (1888-1976) Wife of recipient, as well as their two sons (see Endnote 3).
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 “WCP6213,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 30 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6213