From A. R. Wallace 4 December [1869]1
9, St. Mark’s Crescent N.W.
December 4th
Dear Darwin
Dr. Adolf Bernhard Meyer who translated my book into German has written to me for permission to translate my original paper in the Linnæan Proc. with yours,—and wants to put my photograph & yours in it.2 If you have given him permission to translate the papers (which I suppose he can do without permission if he pleases) I write to ask which of your photographs you would wish to represent you in Germany,—the last, or the previous one by Ernest Edwards, which I think much the best, as if you like I will undertake to order them and save you any more trouble about it.3 It is of course out of the question our meeting to be photographed together, as Mr. Meyer coolly proposes.
Hoping you are well, believe me yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace
P.S. I have written a paper on Geological Time, which will appear in “Nature”,—& I think I have hit upon a solution of our greatest difficulties in that matter.4
A. R. W.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Inquires about arrangements for the German translation and publication of their original Linnean Society papers [Collected papers 2: 3–19].
ARW thinks he has hit upon a solution to problem of geological time.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7019
- From
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, St Mark’s Crescent, 9
- Source of text
- DAR 106: B88–9
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7019,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7019.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17