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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Mary Ann Wallace (née Greenell)
Date:
13 June 1851
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/22
Summary:

Henry W. Bates conveys to ARW’s mother news of the death of her son Edward (Herbert Edward), ARW’s younger brother, who reached camp while ARW was away upriver. He had contracted yellow fever; Bates was with him, obtained physician’s care, but after a few days Herbert perished from the “black vomit,” the most lethal form of the disease. Bates reports that Herbert was well looked after to the end.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Mary Ann Wallace (née Greenell)
Date:
18 October 1851
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/23
Summary:

Bates informs ARW’s mother of the death of youngest son Edward Herbert Wallace from yellow fever; his insect collections will be sent home by next vessel. Herbert didn’t realize “that his case was serious until a few hours before his death,” and then he remarked that it was “sad to die so young.” About a third of population here wiped out by smallpox.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[19 & 23 Nov. 1856]
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418383
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 64-65]
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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project