WCP6762

Letter (WCP6762.7824)

[1]

Princeton

New Jersey

1st November

1898.

My dear Sir

I beg to thank you for your very kind note regarding "Bird Studies".1

At the same time I wish to express to you the great incentive to pursue my own work, which has come from your books.

[2] Your "Malay Archipelago"2 is my Bible and is always by the head of my bed. I rarely go to sleep without reading from it, and I have read all again and again, with ever renewed[?] interest.

So I sent you my book as a slight token of my obligation to and regard for you

I am | sincerely | W. E. D. Scott [signature]

To

Alfred R. Wallace Esq.

1
Scott, W. E. D. 1898. Bird Studies. An Account of the Land Birds of Eastern North America. New York and London: G. P. Putman's Sons. The Knickerbocker Press.
2
Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago; the Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise, 2 vols. London: Macmillan.

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Transcribed by Ghosh, Susan [2022-06-18]

Please cite as “WCP6762,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 8 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6762