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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
22 November 1886
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/6
Summary:
Receipt of her letter after a month without news; visit to Williamstown, sending plants of fern Polystichum acrostichoides growing near a waterfall there and some moth cocoons for son William, moths should emerge in spring, instructions for care; stay with Dr Carter, President of the (Williamstown) College, and his daughter, invitation to return to view spring flowers; orchids including Cypripedum spectabile common; has sent gentian seeds to her papa (William Mitten); fears for his voice as has a cold, will wear respirator whenever going out, to travel 100 miles to lecture tomorrow; people becoming "oppressively kind and respectful.".
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project