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From:
Frederick ("Fred") Birch
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 May 1910
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/6/4
Summary:

Delay in leaving Brazil due to photographing local families, problems of portrait photograph; reconsidering move (to British Guiana), correspondence with Mr May and Mr Rodway of Georgetown, Barbados, recent changes in laws on immigration into British colonies, possibility of going to Victoria, Espirito Santo, Brazil as living cheaper and postal service more reliable than in Rio state; nature of entomologists, not all collectors lovers of nature, quotes a John Donne verse (probably as quoted in Walden by Thoreau) and Emerson on man and nature; collection for Prof Poulton now complete; recent collections of moths and butterflies including an unknown moth and probable Zeonia and a Nymphalinae butterflies (all described in some detail); long local drought affecting crops and food prices; gardening; asks for news of British parliament and budget; unemployment relief, have Mr Mill's [J S Mill] and ARW's schemes been tried; asks for copies of "Intensive Culture" published by The Clarion and New Age article on "The Art of homemaking" by Walter S. Sparrow.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project