WCP1267

Transcription (WCP1267.1046)

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June 14th May

May 8 1845

I have scarcely got into my new teaching,1 but everything is arranged to make me very comfortable, all I want is someone with me in the schoolroom. I am living in a delightful private family and go everyday to my school — the House is a good one but of course it wants someone to keep it which at present I cannot do. Oh how I wish I could offer you a House again, If it were not for the voyage2 I would say come to me in the Autumn and bring some one with you[.] If you are poorly you will always find a kind nurse in your | Fanny

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In 1845, Frances Wallace left her teaching position at the Montpelier Institute near Macon, Georgia, USA (which she had begun in the fall of 1844) to teach at a private school in Robinson, Alabama, USA, near Montgomery (Wallace, A. R. 1905. My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions. Vol. 1. London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd. [p. 223]).
2
Travelling across the Atlantic.

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Revision history

Transcribed by Szentgyorgyi, Katherine [2012-09-17] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Barton, Michael [2018-11-21]

Please cite as “WCP1267,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP1267