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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Mitten
Date:
13 August 1893
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP15/1/2
Summary:
Mitten's visit to Festiniog; the ARW's recent tour of the Lake District including Dovedale, Keswick, Derwentwater and Borrowdale, coach trip, pony ride up Bowfell, hotels, weather, scenery; rare ferns scarce, alpines hard to find; met daughter Violet at Settle in Yorkshire, Geranium and Campanula in flower; details of exotic plants flowering at home. Notes: See old refWP2/45; notes on this tour.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project