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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
1 July 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/36
Summary:
Her success in letting the house; visit to Yosemite and Santa Cruz with his brother John to see big trees; swollen and ulcerated lip confining him to the house, plans to visit Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada when well; ferns from Santa Cruz sent to Miss Jekyll; Mr Marshall; problems with posting items from America; ARW's San Francisco lecture on spiritualism well attended and further offer from Chicago, Spiritualism pays better than Natural History; sending ferns from Yosemite; description of Sequoia sempervirens seen in the Redwood forests and exotic plants in California; California as a place to live.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project