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Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 By: James Marchant |
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[Illustration] Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences By James Marchant With Two Photogravures and Eight Half tone Plates IN TWO VOLUMES Volume I CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne 1916 To the Memory of ANNIE WALLACE PREFACE These two volumes consist of a selection from several thousands of letters entrusted to me by the Wallace family and dating from the dawn of Darwinism to the second decade of the twentieth century, supplemented by such biographical particulars and comments as are required for the elucidation of the correspondence and for giving movement and continuity to the whole. The wealth and variety of Wallace's own correspondence, excluding the large collection of letters which he received from many eminent men and women, and the necessity for somewhat lengthy introductions and many annotations, have expanded the work to two (there was, indeed, enough good material to make four) volumes. The family has given me unstinted confidence in using or rejecting letters and reminiscences, and although I have consulted scientific and literary friends, I alone must be blamed for sins of omission or commission. Nothing has been suppressed in the unpublished letters, or in any of the letters which appear in these volumes, because there was anything to hide. Everything Wallace wrote, all his private letters, could be published to the world. His life was an open book "no weakness, no contempt, dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair." The profoundly interesting and now historic correspondence between Darwin and Wallace, part of which has already appeared in the "Life and Letters of Charles Darwin" and "More Letters," and part in Wallace's autobiography, entitled "My Life," is here published, with new additions, for the first time as a whole, so that the reader now has before him the necessary material to form a true estimate of the origin and growth of the theory of Natural Selection, and of the personal relationships of its noble co discoverers. My warmest thanks are offered to Sir Francis Darwin for permission to use his father's letters, for his annotations, and for rendering help in checking the typescript of the Darwin letters; to Mr. John Murray, C.V.O., for permission to use letters and notes from the "Life and Letters of Charles Darwin" and from "More Letters"; to Messrs. Chapman and Hall for their great generosity in allowing the free use of letters and material in Wallace's "My Life"; to Prof. E.B. Poulton, Prof. Sir W.F. Barrett, Sir Wm. Thiselton Dyer, Dr. Henry Forbes, and others for letters and reminiscences; and to Prof. Poulton for reading the proofs and for valuable suggestions. An intimate chapter on Wallace's Home Life has been contributed by his son and daughter, Mr. W.G. Wallace and Miss Violet Wallace. J.M. March, 1916. CONTENTS Volume I INTRODUCTION PART I I. WALLACE AND DARWIN EARLY YEARS II. EARLY LETTERS (1854 62) PART II I. THE DISCOVERY OF NATURAL SELECTION II. THE COMPLETE EXTANT CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN WALLACE AND DARWIN (1857 81) Volume II PART III I. WALLACE'S WORKS ON BIOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION II. CORRESPONDENCE ON BIOLOGY, GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (1864 93) III. CORRESPONDENCE ON BIOLOGY, GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (1894 1913) PART IV HOME LIFE PART V SOCIAL AND POLITICAL VIEWS PART VI SOME FURTHER PROBLEMS I. ASTRONOMY II. SPIRITUALISM PART VII CHARACTERISTICS APPENDIX: LISTS OF WALLACE'S WRITINGS INDEX LIST OF PLATES IN VOLUME I A.R. WALLACE (1912) A.R. WALLACE (SINGAPORE, 1862) A.R. WALLACE'S MOTHER A.R. WALLACE SOON AFTER HIS RETURN FROM THE EAST Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences INTRODUCTION In Westminster Abbey there repose, almost side by side, by no conscious design yet with deep significance, the mortal remains of Isaac Newton and of Charles Darwin... Continue reading book >>
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