WCP7021

Letter (WCP7021.8133)

[1]

Hurstpierpoint, Sussex

March 23rd. 1868

My dear Sir Charles

Many thanks for your kindness in sending me the 2nd. Vol. of your new and great work.1 I have been reading it with extreme interest, and feel sure that it will, more than any others work, help on the changes of opinions respecting the "Origins of Species"2 and kindred subjects.

You have treated it all admirably, and I am especially glad that [2]] you have dwelt so largely on the distributions, varieties and origin of man. Your chapter on Oceanic Islands is also one that has pleased me greatly.

This edition of the "Principles" is so essentially a new work that I hope it will be fully reviewed as such, and thus have public attention called [3] to the variety of interesting subjects it so well elucidates.

I also have to thank you for the prominence you have given to my name in many of your chapters.

Believe me | Yours very faithfully

Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Sir Charles Lyell3

[4]4

1
Lyell, C. 1868. Principles of Geology, 10th edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray.
2
Darwin, C. 1859. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London, UK: John Murray.
3
"Sir Charles Lyell" is written in ARW's hand at the bottom of page 1.
4
"1868. Mar 23 | A. R. Wallace" is written in an unknown hand at the upper right-hand corner of page 4.

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Transcribed by Sherwood, Danni [2020-05-29] Transcription checked by Beros, Matt [2020-12-31]

Please cite as “WCP7021,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 8 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP7021