WCP6722

Letter (WCP6722.7775)

[1]

Quincy House, Boston

Dec[ember] 12th, 1886

Dear Sir,

I am sorry you have had occasion to write again about my lecture to the American Geog[raphical] Society. I will be delivered from notes, and I can not undertake to write it out or to correct a reporter's notes of it, which would involve more time & labour than wriiting two or three lectures. If you wish to prepare an abstract of it comprising a few paragraphs I should have no objection to correct the proofs of such an abstract. When I was first asked to give a lecture nothing was said [2] about its publication or I should have declined it as inconsistent with my objective coming to this country.

Believe me

Yours faithfully

Alfred R. Wallace

Geo. C. Hurlbut Esq.1

[3] Alfred R. Wallace

1
Hurlbut, George Channing. [13 February 1830 — 26 December 1908. American Librarian American Geographical Society 1883-1908] Sources: Anon (1909). Obituary: George Channing Hurlbut. Bulletin of the American Geographical Society 41(1): 16-17. Birth date (13 February 1830) taken from Find a Grave entry (indagrave.com/memorial/97951619/george-canning-hurlbut) — accessed May 16, 2020.

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Transcribed by Murray, Wayne [2020-06-09]

Please cite as “WCP6722,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6722