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From:
Charles Roach Smith
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
3 October 1854
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 320
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Henslow Correspondence Project
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One of a set of letters providing in-depth descriptions John Wallace's life in the gold mining town of Columbia, California, building a system to bring water to gold mining operations in the town.
Sailing for Sarawak next day; arranging and cataloguing collection of 6,000 specimens - birds, insects and shells; impossibility of collecting plants for William Hooker; pleasure at quotation by Latham; any news of Sebastopol; wanting copies of Punch; expedition to Mount Ophir.