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From:
Frederick ("Fred") Birch
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 February 1910
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/6/3(1)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/6/3(2)
Summary:

ARW's letter to Dr Huber; lack of information on insect collecting opportunities in Para, suspects trade rivalry; plans to leave Brazil after two and a half years there, details of repeated theft and loss of packages in the mails and his valuable hand-made collecting case sent from Tring by Dr Jordan at Bahia customs house; misunderstanding with Mr May over house rent and purchase of collections; surprise at news of A M Moss collecting in the Andes; butterflies sent to Tring made £53.12.00 but cannot trust beetle collection to a carrier, is making boxes for them; plans to go to British Guiana and collect on the Demerara or Berbice rivers, cannot afford to go to the Andes because of responsibility for Mary and Elsie [wife and child]; disagrees with ARW's views on labour and intellect, quotes Thoreau and from an ARW letter; necessity of broad study and experience of life, nobility of agricultural labour; admires some articles in the N.A. (New Age).

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project