WCP1303

Letter (WCP1303.1082)

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Parkstone, Dorset.

Novr.. 26th. 1890

My dear Fanny1

I have to be in London on business on Monday afternoon and will come by [to] you about 6 o’clock I expect for the night. I had a letter from Mrs. Gorringe2 about a week ago sending us an old ring which she thought I would like to have as a memento of Miss Roberts.3 She said that the affairs were not settled yet but that she would be able [2] to carry out Miss Robert’s wishes as regards you. The ring is a mourning ring about 100 years old "In memory of Richd Russell Esq". died 1784 -"4 I suppose it was given to old Mrs. Roberts5 & that it was the Mr. Russell after whom, or after whose wife, I was named.

Your portraits of "Sitting Bull" & the other Indians ought to sell now as there is so much about them in the papers.

Hoping yourself & Thomas6 are quite well.

Believe me | your affectionate Brother | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Sims (née Wallace) Frances ("Fanny") (1812-1893). Sister of ARW; teacher. Married Thomas Sims (1826-1910) in 1849.
Gorringe, Henrietta Elizabeth McNeil (née O’Hara) (-). British. wife of Thomas James Hamilton Gorringe.
Possibly Roberts, ?. Daughter of John and Elizabeth Roberts.
ARW wrote about this in his autobiography, My Life (1905), p. 6.
Roberts (née Greenell) Elizabeth ("Eliza") (c. 1815- ). Second cousin of ARW; lived in Epsom, Surrey. Married John Roberts. Wallace, 1905, vol. 1.
Sims, Thomas (1826-1910). Brother-in-law of ARW; photographer.

Please cite as “WCP1303,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP1303