WCP6393

Letter (WCP6393.7391)

[1]1

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS,

B[RITISH]. I[NSTITUTE]. BUILDING,

NICOL ROAD,

(POST BOX 31),

BOMBAY

Date 17.10.[19]382

In reply please quote 715/314/MS

W. G. Wallace3 Esq[uire].

Culver Croft

61 East Avenue

Bournemouth

Dear Sir,

Wadia & Sethna: Literary Interludes4

(Your letter of 16.12.37 to our London office)

We are sending you today a draft for £10 as the copyright fee for the use of ‘The Living Organism’ from Man’s Place in the Universe5. Kindly send us a receipt for this amount.

We would like to take this opportunity of thanking you for your courtesy in co-operating with us.

Yours faithfully, | OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS | [Illeg. initials in ink]

BS

Cashed October 26th & divided with V[iolet]. I[sabel]. W[allace]6. Receipt sent7

1
The letter is typewritten. The page is numbered [WP16/1/50] in pencil in the top RH 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
Wadia, A. S. & Sethna, H. D. (1938) Literary interludes: selections from English prose of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Oxford, Oxford University Press.
5
Wallace, A. R. (1903) Man's Place in the Universe: a study of the results of scientific research in relation to the unity or plurality of worlds London, Chapman & Hall.
6
Wallace, Violet Isabel (1869-1945) Daughter and second child and of ARW, sister of William Greenell Wallace.
7
Annotation in pencil in the hand of the recipient in the LH margin.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP6393.7391)]

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Revision history

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

Please cite as “WCP6393,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 8 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6393