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WCP3640

From:
Henry Unwin Addington
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
19 August 1853
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 FOREIGN OFFICE
Summary:

“Free passage to Singapore” granted to ARW and permission sought “to visit the Dutch and Spanish settlements in the Eastern Seas.” A place is available on a “ship of War” headed for Trincomalee “but no further.”

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3649

From:
Loftus Charles Otway
To:
George William Frederick Villiers
Date:
19 August 1853
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 FOREIGN OFFICE
Summary:

Official permission granted to ARW for “projected scientific expedition to the Eastern Archipelago”; Spanish Colonial office in the Philippines instructed “to afford to Mr. Wallace any assistance & protection he may require.”

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel13124

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[19 August 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0483.15; Reel 1055
Summary:

Submits E. W. Ward's report on feasibility of establishing branch mint in Sydney. Encourages Treasury to proceed with Ward's plan.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13338

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[19 August 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0544.8; Reel 1053
Summary:

Postpone paying bills until end of month. Questions MH's birthday festivities. Congratulates Hayley family on remarriage. Poor Mr. Paynder is gone. JH finished third volume of Adam Graeme at Mossgray [by Margaret Oliphant].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1931

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Elizabeth Lyell
Date:
[19 August 1853]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.7
Summary:

Thankful for the Lyells' return and accepts their invitation to dinner.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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