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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
10 February 1895
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/60
Summary:
Nervous illness of her mother (Annie Wallace), attended by Dr Philpotts; fifth very cold winter in Dorset; no water in house due to frozen water pipes; reports that winter the coldest since 1854; hard frosts in Norfolk, deep snow in Rome, Germany and America, warning Violet not to skate on thin ice; news of Mrs Fisher and Mrs Maclachlan.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project