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From:
Antonio Brady
To:
George Charles Silk
Date:
8 April 1867
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 f. 16
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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Leon du Four's History of Prostitution and Darwin's Origin of Species. Two months spent in Ternate dealing with a year's mail, cleaning, arranging and packing collections of birds, insects and shells for shipment to England and preparing for further expeditions; paper on "The native trade with New Guinea" sent to the Geographical.
Plans to return to England; GS's preoccupation with politics; ARW's paper on New Guinea Native Trade, Blondin, Mr Fechter; Great Expectations; wet season in Sumatra; jungle animals; monkey behaviour; Malay language and customs; [Mony's] book on Java; Dutch and British colonial government; GS's siblings; Marriage, desirable qualities in a wife.