From A. R. Wallace 6 December 1874
The Dell, Grays, Essex
Decr. 6th. 1874
Dear Darwin
Many thanks for your kindness in sending me a copy of your new Edition of the “Descent”.1 I see you have made a whole host of additions & corrections which I shall have great pleasure in reading over as soon as I have got rid of my horrid book on Geog. Distn.2 which is almost driving me mad with the amount of drudgery required and the often unsatisfactory nature of the result. However I must finish with it soon, or all the parts first done will have to be done over again, every new book either as a monograph, or a classification putting everything wrong (for me.)
Hoping you are in good health & able to go on with your favourite work | I remain | Yours very sincerely | Alfred R. Wallace
Charles Darwin Esq.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Summary
Thanks for new edition of Descent.
His work on geographical distribution; drudgery and the often unsatisfactory nature of the result.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9744
- From
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Grays
- Source of text
- DAR 106: B120
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9744,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9744.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
