Volume 1

My life : a record of events and opinions / by Alfred Russel Wallace.

  • Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1905
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: My life : a record of events and opinions / by Alfred Russel Wallace. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE The present volumes would not have been written had not the representatives of my English and American publishers assured me that they would probably interest a large number of readers. I had indeed promised to write some account of my early life for the information of my son and daughter, but this would have been of very limited scope, and would probably not have been printed. Having never kept a diary, except when abroad, nor preserved any of the earlier letters of my friends, I at first thought that I had no materials for any full record of my life and experiences. But when I set to work in earnest to get together whatever scattered memoranda I could find, the numerous letters I possessed from men of considerable emi¬ nence, dating from my return home in 1862, together with a few of my own returned to me by some of my correspondents, I began to see that I had a fair amount of material, though I was very doubtful how far it would interest any considerable number of readers. As several of my friends have assured me that a true record of a life, especially if sufficiently full as to
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