From Alfred Russel Wallace 22 January 1870
9, St Mark’s Crescent. N.W.
Jan. 22nd. 1870
Dear Darwin
My paper on Geolog. Time having been in type nearly two months, & not knowing when it will appear, I have asked for a proof to send you, Huxley & Lyell.1 The latter part only, contains what I think is new, & I shall be anxious to hear if it at all helps to get over your difficulties.2 I have been lately revising & adding to my various papers bearing on the “Origin of Species” &c. and am going to print them in a volume immediately, under the title of — “Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A series of Essays.”
In the last, I put forth my heterodox opinions as to Man, & even venture to attack the Huxleyian philosophy!3
Hoping you are quite well & are getting on with your “Man” book,4
Believe me Dr. Darwin | Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace
Charles Darwin Esq.
P.S. When you have read the proof & done with it, may I beg you to return it to me. | ARW.
Footnotes
Summary
Plans for his new book, Contributions to the theory of natural selection (1870), which will contain his papers on the subject.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7085
- From
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, St Mark’s Crescent, 9
- Source of text
- DAR 106: B90–1
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7085,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7085.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
