Did Wallace resent the treatment he received vis-a-vis the “delicate arrangement” of 1858?
Wallace never publicly expressed any annoyance over the situation, nor, as far as we know, did he ever say anything derogatory in private. Indeed, on a number of occasions (for example, S599, S656, S726, S729 & S743) he indicated that he felt Darwin’s much longer attention to the problem more than spoke for his priority on the matter. Still, there remain good reasons for doubt on this score. To begin with, Wallace was a gentleman, and would have considered public complaining unseemly behavior (some may consider this a dubious remark, but it has often been noted how there is scarcely, if any, a word in all of Wallace’s voluminous public and private writings that anyone might regard as shameful or personally embarrassing). Moreover, he certainly would have realized by, say, 1860, that he was destined to become one of history’s noteworthies, and that even his private writings might someday be scrutinized for such commentary. And, in the more immediate sense, he seemingly had every reason
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