WCP772

Letter (WCP772.944)

[1]

[Imprint of the logo of the publisher]

Amsterdam

18 Oct’ 1904

Dear Sir,

By the same post I have the pleasure to forward to your address a copy of the Dutch translation1 of your valuable work "The Wonderful Century," published by A. B. Soep of this city, which you have kindly authorized me to translate. Allow we to express the great pleasure that I have felt in rendering your important instructive yet so popular work. I can assure you that the translation has been done with all the respect to the original to which your book may so fully lay claim.

[2] I hope that you will accept the present volume as a slight token of esteem to its author[.]

from | yrs respectfully | Mrs. S. J. Barentz [signature]

Mrs. S J. Barentz2

13 Grensstraat

Amsterdam

Holland.

Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1904. De Wondereeuw: het tijdperk van nieuwe denkbeelden op het gebied der wetenschap en der uitvindingen. Translated by S. J. Barentz (Mrs). Amsterdam: A. B. Soep.

Barentz (née Schönberg), Sara Josephine (1867-?).

Dutch translator of ARW's book The Wonderful Century into Dutch.

Please cite as “WCP772,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP772