WCP6396

Letter (WCP6396.7394)

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28, ALEXANDRA PARK ROAD,

MUSWELL HILL,

LONDON N.10.

17th May, 1929.

Dear Sir2,

I am much obliged and very grateful for your kind permission to use the two extracts from D[octo]r. A. R. Wallaces’s "Man’s Place in the Universe"3. I shall have much pleasure in making acknowledgement of your kindness, in the volume4.

I remain, | dear Sir, | Yours very truly, | E. M. Palser5 [signature]

1
The page is numbered [WP16/1/55] in pencil in the top RH corner.
2
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
3
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.
4
Palser, E. M. (1929) View Larger ImageA Practical Course of Précis Writing Book II London, University of London Press. (No record found of proposed Book III having been published).
5
Palser, E. M. (No dates found) Senior Master at Westminster City School. He published a number of educational books, mainly literary commentaries and questionnaires.

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

Please cite as “WCP6396,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6396