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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
5 March 1893
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/20
Summary:

Writes regarding sending £20 for William's birthday; family health; arrival of a circular from college [Finsbury Technical College]; Violet going to Liverpool to interview for a teaching position in a girl's school, salary offered, advantages of living in Liverpool; ARW's purchase of Chambers' Encyclopaedia; new stamp album; ARW's article on "Inaccessible Valleys" in the Nineteenth Century, re-reading Lorna Doone; complete works of Dickens for Ma's (William's mother Annie Wallace) birthday and Scott's novels for Violet; Ponton's shilling pin-hole camera.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project