P.S.—Two of my books have been translated into Japanese: will you ascertain whether the Bodleian would like to have them?
TO PROF. POULTON[43]
Old Orchard, Broadstone, Dorset, June 3, 1913.
My dear Poulton,—I am very glad you have changed your view about the "Sleeper" lectures being a "fake." The writer was too earnest, and too clear a thinker, to descend to any such trick. And for what? "Agnostic" is not in Shakespeare, but it may well have been used by someone before Huxley. The parts of your Address of which you send me slips are excellent, and I am sure will be of great interest to your audience. I quite agree with your proposal that the "Lectures" shall be given to the Linnean Society.—Yours very truly,
ALFRED R. WALLACE.
TO MR. E. SMEDLEY
Old Orchard, Broadstone, Dorset. August 26, 1913.
Dear Mr. Smedley,—I am glad to see you looking so jolly. I return the photo to give to some other friend. Mr. Marchant, the lecturer you heard, is a great friend of mine, [pg 101] but is now less dogmatic. The Piltdown skull does not prove much, if anything!