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WCP380

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 November 1863
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/55
Summary:

Journey from Guayaquil, heart-attack, paralysis, general ill-health and poverty, inability to collect insects for ARW; botany, illness preventing his work on collection of mosses; bitterness at treatment by Sir William Hooker; newspaper reports on Darwin's Origin of Species, geographical distribution of species; ARW's Malayan collections; collectors in the Andes; tameness of native birds; marriage; possibility of returning to England.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP381

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 January 1866
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/56
Summary:

ARW's new stereoscope; Latham's failure to publish Spruce's vocabularies, Latham's bankruptcy; return of the MS to Spruce; New Year greetings to ARW and his "charmante épouse".

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP382

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
26 April 1867
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/58
Summary:

Spiritualism; ARW's memoir on Malay migration; inherited deafness in cats; Paris Exposition.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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