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From:
Dionysius Lardner
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
18 Oct. /51
Source of text:
MS JT/5/16b/431, RI
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Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Bates informs ARW’s mother of the death of youngest son Edward Herbert Wallace from yellow fever; his insect collections will be sent home by next vessel. Herbert didn’t realize “that his case was serious until a few hours before his death,” and then he remarked that it was “sad to die so young.” About a third of population here wiped out by smallpox.