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WCP7210

Published letter (WCP7210.8374)

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Telegrams:

HINDHEAD

From Sir A. CONAN DOYLE,

Undershaw,

Hindhead,

Haslemere

[word illeg.] my reading is not very up to date. I liked "Puck of Pook's Hill"2[. ] It was the most vivid picture of some phases of English history that I had ever seen. "In the Desert" by March Phillips seemed to me a very finely written book. "The Jungle"3 was a wonderfully sincere bit of work. Henderson's "Science of War"4 was the work of a man who would have done for the army what Mahan did for the navy. These have impressed me most together with Wallace's autobiography5. ACD.

I omitted to say in my previous let card that I think there is as much wisdom & political insight in Well's "Future of America"6 [sic] as in any book I have ever read.

ACD.

1
There is a catalogue/reference number inscribed at the top of the page. It reads "WP6/8/32".
2
Kipling, Rudyard. (1906). Puck of Pook's Hill. George Newnes, London. 224 pp.
3
Sinclair, Upton. (1906). The Jungle. Doubleday, Jabber and Co.. New York. 475 pp.
4
Henderson, Colonel G. F. R.. (1912). The Science of War; a Collection of Essays and Lectures, 1891-1903. Longmans, Green & Co., London. 442 pp.
5
Wallace, Alfred Russel. (1905). My Life; A Record of Events and Opinions. 2 volumes. Chapman and Hall Ltd. London. 435 and 459 pp.
6
Wells, Herbert George. (1906). The Future in America; A Search after Realities. Chapman and Hall Ltd., London. 359 pp.

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Transcribed by Cooper, Rod [2020-03-30]

Please cite as “WCP7210,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP7210