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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Mitten
Date:
15 July 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/39
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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From ARW to his father-in-law instructing he forward the enclosed information to Annie his wife about his movements and intentions regarding his returning home from his North American tour. ARW also describes his trip out the previous day to a primeval forest and the plant species he encountered.
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Mitten's visit to Festiniog; the ARW's recent tour of the Lake District including Dovedale, Keswick, Derwentwater and Borrowdale, coach trip, pony ride up Bowfell, hotels, weather, scenery; rare ferns scarce, alpines hard to find; met daughter Violet at Settle in Yorkshire, Geranium and Campanula in flower; details of exotic plants flowering at home. Notes: See old refWP2/45; notes on this tour.
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Rhizomes of mosses; news from Ridley who has seen a white snake in Selangor caves; Mitten's new Crepis species; Hieracia; will send Hoxne Report from British Association meeting; enclosing two (of his) Dorset papers, one relating to Blashenwell, the other not botanical.
Sending Jamaica and Singapore moss; plants in flower in ARW's pond and garden, letters from son William, who is working on a railway [in America]; purchase of land by the Parish [at Hurstpierpoint]; convolvulus. Notes: When first listed this was were in a brown cardboard box in the form of a book, entitled "Letters" on spine, containing miscellaneous apparently unrelated letters and photos; it seems more appropriate here.
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