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WCP13

Letter (WCP13.13)

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

June 15th. 1891

My dear Will1

When you describe any such "accidents" again please put it on a separate piece of paper as Ma2 was unable to read your letter in consequence of such horrors.

I enclose a Card in case you and any friends like to come on Thursday Evening to hear me preach on Land Nationalisation. Violet3& a lot of her friends will be there. [2] I have at last settled with Mr Rigler & Mr. Ponton & all is pretty straight. The garden is looking very nice with lots of flowers.

Mr. & Mrs. Cockerell4,5 were here today. They are going to Jamaica in a few weeks. I gave him an a pocket Aneroid as a remembrance & for his held [sic] [help] in correcting "Island Life."6 — Mrs. Allman died last Thursday & was [3] buried on Saturday. I went to the funeral.

Our neighbours Col. Nichol, his wife, sister & little girls are very nice people — & the sister, Mrs. Cooper, is a crack tennis player, & they have the court opposite them marked out & their straining poles down.

Being very busy I can write no more just now. I was at Meldola’s7 a fortnight ago at time of Exams.8

[4] I suppose you got the Conic Section book.

You affectionate Papa | Alfred R. Wallace — [signature]

1
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951). Son of ARW.
2
Wallace (née Mitten), Annie (1846-1914). British. Wife of ARW; daughter of William Mitten.
3
Wallace, Violet Isabel (1869-1945). Daughter of ARW; teacher.
4
Cockerell, Theodore Dru Alison (1866-1948). British-born American zoologist, taxonomist, and museum curator.
5
Cockerell (née Fenn) Annie Sarah (1857-1893). First wife of Theodore D. A. Cockerell.
6
Wallace, A.R. 1902. Island Life Or The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras. London: Macmillan & Co.
7
Meldola, Raphael (1849-1915). British chemist and entomologist.
8
See Wallace’s ‘My experiences as an examiner’ in Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. Volume 2, pp. 406-418.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP13.13)]

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Transcribed by Vongsachang, Hurnan [2010-07-08] Transcription checked by Chen, Eric [2011-07-08] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Lo, Yen [2020-12-03] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2024-06-16] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2024-11-11]

Please cite as “WCP13,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP13