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WCP7275

Postcard (WCP7275.8477)

[1]1

Herbert Bice2 Esq.

28, Aden Grove

Stoke Newington

London.

[2]

Broadstone, Dorset.

Novr 21st. 1911

Dear Sir

Thanks for yours of yesterday.3 I am glad you appreciate my “Island Life.”4The Devon & Cornwall granite is very ancient – though there are granites which are less so but not very recent. The cutting you send refers to my last book – “The World of Life,”5 published less than a year ago. I hope you will read it.

yours truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
Postmark on postcard reads: "BROADSTONE WIMBORNE | 8.30PM | NO 21 | 11"
2
Bice, Joseph Herbert (1873-1952). British commercial traveller.
3
The letter has not been found.
4
Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1902. Island Life. Or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, including a revision and attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited.
5
Wallace, A. R. 1910. The World of Life: a Manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind and Ultimate Purpose. London: Chapman & Hall.

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Status: Edited (but not proofed) transcription [Postcard (WCP7275.8477)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Chua, Christine [2024-12-20] Transcription checked by Beccaloni, George [2024-12-20]

Please cite as “WCP7275,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP7275