WCP6386

Letter (WCP6386.7383)

[1]1

31, St. Margaret’s,

Rottingdean,

Sussex.

8th October, 1949.

Dear Mr Wallace2,

Thank you for your letter of the 6th October. The anthology3 has suffered the usual interminable delays in publishing, but I am glad to say that a publication date is now firmly fixed — the 20th of this month. I have availed myself of your permission to quote certain extracts from A. R. Wallace’s "Malay Archipelago"4 [sic] on the terms you were good enough to offer, and you should be hearing from the publishers, William Hodge & Company5, and you should be hearing from very shortly.

Yours sincerely, | Harold Evans [signature]

S. H. Evans6

W. G. WALLACE ESQ[UIRE].

1
The letter is typewritten with the exception of the salutation and valediction. The page is numbered [WP16/1/42] in pencil in the top RH corner.
2
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
3
Evans, H. (Ed.) (1949) Men in the Tropics: A Colonial Anthology London, William Hodge & Co.
4
Wallace, A. R. (1869) The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel with Studies of Man and Nature. London, Macmillan & Co.
5
Publishers of mainly law books, with offices in London, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
6
Evans, S. Harold (known as Harold Evans) (No dates or biographical details found).

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

Please cite as “WCP6386,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 30 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6386