Discusses the importance of finding the best collecting districts to work in, based on ARW's correspondence with Bates on his time in the Malay Archipelago.
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Discusses the advantages of collecting in Brazil.
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This letter is about the 200 or so drawings of fishes that ARW made while on the Rio Negro and its tributaries in the 1850s. ARW explains that the specimens were lost on the voyage home but that as the drawings are to scale and have descriptions and accompanying notes they might be useful to a student or to catalogue. He suggests they could be reproduced by photography and process-plate. ARW states he is reluctant to throw them away.
Presenting ARW with copy of her translation into Dutch of The Wonderful Century (De Wondereeuw, Amsterdam, A. B. Soep, c. 1904).
Sends his fish drawings [of the Rio Negro] and four rough notebooks.
Proposed changes to ARW's will; ARW's autobiography; electrical theory; Violet's future; William's career.
His young friend Fred Birch is going to British Guiana. Cd Thomas advise Birch on what to collect and give him a copy of the department's printed instructions - send specimens directly to the Museum for Thomas to choose what he requires - will Museum pay a fixed price per specimen - ARW asks because "we can hear of no trustworthy agents".
ARW's new will; autobiography; sitting for portrait; dubious authorship of poem "Leonainie"; Fred Birch preparing for trip to British Guiana. On the back of folio 2 is a poem headed "The outcast", initialled "William Greenell Wallace".
Leonainie authorship controversy; William's career; poetry; family pedigree; American reviews of Man's Place in the Universe.
William's career, enclosing letter from H. E. Dresser (WCP88); research for autobiography, family papers received from Thomas Sims; sends amusing newspaper cuttings (not present).
William's career, Dresser's enquiries at the Admiralty about positions for electrical engineers in the dockyards; illness of Dresser's daughter.
William's poetry; "Leonainie" controversy, has written to the Fortnightly; Mr Marriott of Manchester.
Premium bonds; visit from Mr and Mrs Casey.
Content of The Clarion; archaeological excavation at Dorchester and proposed excavation at Badbury (Badbury Rings near Wimborne), visit from an archaeologist.
William's career; Bankes family and postponement of proposed excavation of Badbury (Badbury Rings, Dorset) enclosing letter from Charles Prideaux (WCP93); visit from a "sluggist" and his American wife.
Postponement of investigation of Badbury (Badbury Rings) because of illness of Mr [A] Bankes; enclosure to letter from ARW to his son William, from Broadstone, 5 Jun 1904.