Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
20 May 1902
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/52
Summary:
William's holiday at Keswick; visit to Broadstone with Ma (William's mother, Annie Wallace) and Olive Casey; aquatic plants for garden arrived from America; slow progress in house-building; Conan Doyle's "Hound story" disappointing; awful West Indian volcanic eruption (Mount Pelee, Martinique, 8 May 1902).
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project