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To A. R. Wallace   26 January [1870]

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Response to ARW’s MS on geological time ["The measurement of geological time", Nature 1 (1870): 399–401, 452–5].

Groans over [what is said about] man.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  26 Jan [1870]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434: 198–9)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7086

To A. R. Wallace   7 March [1870?]

Summary

Would like to call at 10 o’clock on Wednesday morning.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  7 Mar [1870?]
Classmark:  David Schulson (dealer) (Catalogue 46, June 1988)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7127A

To A. R. Wallace   31 March [1870]

Summary

Thanks for a woodcut sent by ARW for Descent.

Congratulations on his removal from London,

and praise of his review of Francis Galton ["Hereditary genius", Nature 1 (1870): 501–3]. CD agrees with every word of it.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  31 Mar [1870]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434: 200–1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7154

To A. R. Wallace   20 April [1870]

Summary

Appreciation of eulogy in preface of ARW’s book [Theory of natural selection].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  20 Apr [1870]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434: 202–3)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7167

To A. R. Wallace   5 [July 1870]

Summary

CD sends a "curious drawing" [missing] relating to imitation and protection.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  5 [July 1870]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434: 204–5)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7218

To A. R. Wallace   22 November [1870]

Summary

Praise for ARW’s reply [Nature 3 (1870): 49–50] to a paper by A. W. Bennett ["Natural selection from a mathematical point of view", Nature 3 (1870): 30–3] holding that mind is a leading cause of variation.

Is reading proof of his "confounded book" [Descent].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  22 Nov [1870]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434: 207–8)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7380

From Alfred Russel Wallace   22 January 1870

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Plans for his new book, Contributions to the theory of natural selection (1870), which will contain his papers on the subject.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Jan 1870
Classmark:  DAR 106: B90–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7085

From A. R. Wallace   6 July 1870

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Thanks for the drawing.

E. Claparède’s review [of Theory of natural selection, Rev. Cours Sci. 7 (1870): 564–71] is weak.

Looks forward [to Descent] with fear of being "crushed under a mountain of facts!"

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 July 1870
Classmark:  DAR 106: B92–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7269

From A. R. Wallace   24 November 1870

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On a good criticism of ARW’s views [North Am. Rev. (1870)].

Problems of establishing a permanent residence.

His Presidential Address for Entomological Society will answer A. Murray on geographical distribution of Coleoptera.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Nov 1870
Classmark:  DAR 106: B94–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7382
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