The Wallace-Darwin Correspondence 



I shall make it a popular sketch first, and, if it succeeds, 

 gather materials for enlarging it at a future time. If any 

 suggestion occurs to you as to the kind of maps that would 

 be best, or on any other essential point, I should be glad 

 of a hint. I hope your residence in Wales did you good. 

 I had no idea you were so near Dolgelly till I met your 

 son there one evening when I was going to leave the next 

 morning. It is a glorious country, but the time I like is 

 May and June — the foliage is so glorious. 



Sincerely hoping you are pretty well, and with kind 

 regards to Mrs. Darwin and the rest of your family, 

 believe me yours very faithfully, Alfred R. Wallace. 



Down, Beckenham, Kent, S.E. October 21, 1869. 



My dear Wallace, — I forwarded your letter at once to 

 my son George, but I am nearly sure that he will not be 

 able to tell you anything; I wish he could for my own 

 sake; but I suspect there are few men in England who 

 could. Pray send me a copy or tell me where your article 

 on Murphy will be published. I have just received the 

 Months but have only read half as yet. I wish I knew 

 who was the author; you ought to know, as he admires 

 you so much; he has a wonderful deal of knowledge, but 

 his difficulties have not troubled me much as yet, except 

 the case of the dipterous larva. My book will not be pub- 

 lished for a long time, but Murray wished to insert some 

 notice of it. Sexual selection has been a tremendous job. 

 Fate has ordained that almost every point on which we 

 differ should be crowded into this vol. Have you seen 

 the October number of the Revue des deux Mondes ? It 

 has an article on you, but I have not yet read it; and 

 another article, not yet read, by a very good man on the 

 Transformist School. 



I am very glad to hear that you are beginning a book^ 



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