WCP6370

Letter (WCP6370.7366)

[1]1

2, ALBANY PARK ROAD,

KINGSTON -UPON-THAMES,

SURREY.

(AND AT 17, PENRHYN ROAD)

93 Copse Hill,

W. Wimbledon, London, SW. 20.

29 Oct[ober] [19]492

W. G. Wallace3, Esq[ui]re.,

61 East Ave[nue].,

Bournemouth.

Dear Sir,

re a Book of Quotations4 in preparation.

I am compiling a book of quotations, not therefore an anthology, and Mess[ieu]rs. Macmillan5 advise me to write to you to enquire whether you would kindly grant permission to include a quotation of 24 lines from Alfred Russel Wallace’s Darwinism6 (1889).

For acknowledgement purposes, may I request what is your family relationship to the illustrious naturalist?

Thanking you in anticipation, | Yours very truly, | E. F. Linssen7 [signature]

Enc. Stamped addressed envelope.

[Note in ink in recipient’s hand]

Oct[ober]. 31. Asked for exact reference to passage & also scope or purpose of this book.

1
The letter is typewritten. The page is numbered [WP16/1/26] in pencil in the top LH corner.
2
Year deduced from birth and death dates of recipient.
3
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
4
Linssen, E. F. (1951) Nature Interlude. A book of natural history quotations. London, Williams & Norgate.
5
Macmillan & Co. London publishers founded in 1843.
6
Wallace, A. R. (1889) Darwinism: an exposition of the theory of natural selection, with some of its applications, London, Macmillan & Co.
7
Linssen, Eugene F. (no dates found) Entomologist, author of books on identification and photography of insects.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP6370.7366)]

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Revision history

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

Please cite as “WCP6370,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 2 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6370