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From:
Emma Hardinge Britten (née Floyd)
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 December 1892
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 f. 135
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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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Death of Werner von Siemens, sending obituary [not present] from Daily News; asks for news of William's work; sister Violet's work, Ma (Annie Wallace) away; magazine club begun with 9 members, initial name "Parkstone Perambulating Periodicals" changed after objections from some members to triviality, circulating The Nineteenth Century, Cornhill, English Illustrated, New Reviews, Natural Science, Good Words, Contemporary, Magazine of Art, and Fortnightly; visit from Mr Ponton with books of pinhole photographs taken in France; recent sharp frosts, fears plant damage; Violet pleased with William's sketches; asks for details of latest stamp-album, and of William's fellow medallist and fellow lodger.