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WCP352

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Charles Silk
Date:
[19 & 26 Mar. 1854]
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/27
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 45-47]
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 171-174]
Summary:

Journey to Alexandria; life on board ship, fellow travellers, anti-cholera precautions at Gibraltar, Cairo, the desert, Alexandria, donkey drivers.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP358

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Charles Silk
Date:
15 October 1854
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/33
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/33
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 52-53]
  • Hooker, W. J. (1855). Extracts of a letter From Mr. Wallace [dated 10 Oct. 1854, Singapore]. Journal of Botany: 7(7): 200-209
Summary:

Sailing for Sarawak next day; arranging and cataloguing collection of 6,000 specimens - birds, insects and shells; impossibility of collecting plants for William Hooker; pleasure at quotation by Latham; any news of Sebastopol; wanting copies of Punch; expedition to Mount Ophir.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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