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WCP1657

From:
Herbert Edward ("Edward") Wallace
To:
Richard Spruce
Date:
15 March 1850?
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/21
Summary:

Living conditions in Barra [Amazonas, Brazil]. Doggerel about fishing: “Here we work with Net and Trigger/By the famous river Nigger” (Watertown) Puns on local words: “All the ‘redes’ (nets) possess a title because they’re Barra-nets.”

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP394

From:
Herbert Edward ("Edward") Wallace
To:
Sims (née Wallace), Frances ("Fanny") & Wallace (née Greenell), Mary Ann?
Date:
30 August [1850]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/77
Summary:

ARW's younger brother Herbert had joined his adventure in Brazil but Alfred left him in the City of Rio Negro, a thousand miles from Para, and “has started today on his long journey up the Rio Negro.” Herbert decides to spend two months collecting specimens in the area in order to repay ARW's loan and cover costs of passage home; plans to time his return to England to be with mother and sister at Christmas.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1656

From:
Herbert Edward ("Edward") Wallace
To:
Richard Spruce
Date:
29 December 1850
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/20
Summary:

Waiting for a passage to England; clothes left at Barra to be forwarded; speculation on Spruce's plans, regards to Mr King.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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