WCP6401

Letter (WCP6401.7400)

[1]1

WYKEHAM HOUSE,

OXFORD

29. XI. 1934

Dear Mr Wallace2,

A German3 who is writing a life of your father wanted to know the names of 2 of his books translated into Japanese. You did not know the names, but I have recently found from the Bodleian Library4 that they are "The World of Life"5 and "The Wonderful Century"6. Have you still kept the name & address of the German? If so [2] will you kindly let me know them as I should like to tell him the names of the books & have mislaid his letter to me.

Hoping that you are all well & with kindest remembrances,

Yours sincerely, | E. B. Poulton7 [signature]

1
The page is numbered [WP16/1/62] in pencil in the top RH corner. "Ans[were]d Dec[ember]. 1st 1934" is written in pencil at the foot of the page.
2
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
3
Hornung, Eugen (no dates or biographical details found) of Karlsruhe-am-Rhein, Germany. Four letters relating to ARW’s life from Hornung to William Greenell Wallace are in the WCP archive: WCP6365 and 6366 (1933), and WCP6367 and 6368 (1934).
4
The main research library of the University of Oxford, one of the oldest libraries in Europe, with a continuous history dating back to 1602.
5
Wallace, A. R. (1910) The World of Life: A Manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind and Ultimate Purpose London, Chapman & Hall.
6
Wallace A. R. (1898) The Wonderful Century; Its Successes and Its Failures London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co.
7
Poulton, Edward Bagnall (1856-1943) British evolutionary biologist, friend of ARW and lifelong advocate of natural selection. He 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 “WCP6401,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 20 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6401