The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

The WCP's transcription protocol plus a basic guide to palaeography and a sample transcript of a letter are available below.

The latest version of the project's transcription protocol can be downloaded by CLICKING HERE.

A copy of the Natural History Museum's Palaeography Guide can be downloaded by CLICKING HERE.

A sample transcript of the letter below can be downloaded by CLICKING HERE.
(Note that this is an historically important letter from ARW to Joseph Hooker giving ARW's reaction to the public announcement of his and Darwin's theories of natural selection at the Linnean Society in 1858)

Letter reproduced with permission of the late Quentin Keynes.