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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
28 February 1899
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/166
Summary:
William's letters from America, death of his horse, snowshoes, severe winter in New York; "Ardmore" still not sold; gathering material for autobiography, does William know whereabouts of steel seal and inscription on family ring, intends to visit a Dorset clergyman who owns a painting of a member of the Wallace family and if possible photograph for the book; bulbs and seeds ordered for garden; apparent loss of books and magazines in post; William's intention to start a business in Bournemouth [with Ma]); ARW writing on white men in the tropics for the New York Independent; writing on Craig's History of Ralahine, Irish cooperative farm 1831-33, to publicise a successful experiment in Socialism.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project