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WCP4498

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
19 June 1887
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 150
Summary:

Description of American travels; the best thing that he has seen are the pine forests and the majestic Sequoias. Wry comments on Americans. A splendid country to travel in, but a poor country to live in. Discusses weather conditions.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP450

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
19 June 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/34
Summary:

Instructs Annie how to complete ARW's tax return in his absence. ARW also chastises Annie for not dating her previous two letters to him and states that their daughter has picked up this bad habit, but their son Willie, "shows the hereditary business instinct of the male animal by duly dating"! ARW bemoans the US government postal weight restrictions affecting his posting of plants back to England. ARW concludes his letter by stating how miserable California is and that "nowhere in America yet have I seen a place I should like to live in".

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