Alfred Russel Wallace 



person to make this known in any way you think proper. 

 As you have so recently been in America, you might per- 

 haps ascertain from the librarian of the public library in 

 Boston, or from some of your biological friends there, what 

 is known of the writer and of his subsequent history. 



If the house at Down is ever dedicated to Darwin's 

 memory it would seem best to preserve this little book 

 there; if not you can dispose of it as you think best. — 

 Yours very truly, Alfred R. Wallace. 



P.S. — Two of my books have been translated into 

 Japanese : will you ascertain whether the Bodleian would 

 like to have them ? 



To Prop. Poulton' 

 Old Orchard, Broadstone, Dorset. June 3, 1913. 



My dear Poulton, — I am very glad you have changed your 

 view about the "Sleeper" lectures being a "fake." The 

 writer was too earnest, and too clear a thinker, to descend 

 to any such trick. And for what ? " Agnostic " is not in 

 Shakespeare, but it may well have been used by someone 

 before Huxley. The parts of your Address of which you 

 send me slips are excellent, and I am sure will be of great 

 interest to your audience. I quite agree with your proposal 

 that the " Lectures " shall be given to the Linnean Society. 

 -Yours very truly, Alfred R. Wallace. 



To Mr. E. Smbdley 

 Old Orchard, Broadstone, Dorset. August 26, 1913. 

 Dear Mr. Smedley, — I am glad to see you looking so 

 jolly. I return the photo to give to some other friend. Mr. 

 Marchant, the lecturer you heard, is a great friend of mine, 



1 This letter relates to evidences, favourable to Sleeper, which had not at 

 the time been critically examined, but broke down when carefully scrutinised. 

 See Prof. Poulton's address to the Linnean Society, May 25, 1914 {Proc, 1913-14, 

 p. 23). 



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