From:
Tommy Grieve
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
October 28th. 1854
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/465, RI
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Tyndall 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.