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"The Waste of Beauty | Written after reading "… Malay Archipelago", undated poem signed J W Gough, Ms in ink on 1 folded folio (3 pp) of lined paper, annotated in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand on the title page "Ideas and sentiments good - | verse but so-so | A.R.W." over "Not bad on the whole" in pencil in his? or WGW's? hand. Notes: A. R. Wallace's "Malay Archipelago" was first published in 1869 but frequently reprinted; the date of the poem could be anywhere between 1869 and A. R. Wallace's year of death, 1913. |
