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From:
Herbert Edward ("Edward") Wallace
To:
Frances ("Fanny") Sims (née Wallace)
Date:
September [1849]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/76
Summary:

Describes Santarein [Santarém], a low-lying town, with most houses only one story. Very abundant fish in river, staple of inhabitants. Made a “Zoological discovery” — a blue pig. Remember pub sign of “Blue pig” at Neath which we all thought was mythological? “No longer a fable...Let the people of Neath know I have seen in Brazil, a living breathing, live Blue Pig.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project