WCP1395

Letter (WCP1395.7930)

[1]1

Would you very kindly favor me, with the Name of a Book bearing on "The Amazon" River, I have a friend up the Country, & another going over to Brazil.

Sorry to trouble you, but, higher the gentleman, the better, & [2 words illeg].

Thanking you in anticipation

Yours <truly> | F. Moore [signature]

Alderley Edge 8/1/[19]13

[2]2 Mr F. Moore

Row of Trees,

Alderley Edge.

1
This note appears to have been written on the back of a torn envelope.
2
This is the front of the envelope with a red British one penny stamp showing King George V and a black postmark "MANCHESTER D. 8.45PM 7 JAN 13" at the top right. A truncated part of the postmark is repeated at the top left. Above the left postmark is a later annotation which reads "WP1/8/206 3 of 3". The handwriting is different from that in page 1.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP1395.7930)]

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Transcribed by Lo, Yen-Nyuk [2020-07-28]

Enclosure (WCP1395.1432)

[1]1,2

DR. RUSSEL WALLACE 90 TO-DAY.

Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace attains the great age of ninety to-day. Born in Monmouthshire in 1823, he first won fame as an explorer and naturalist, accompanying Bates to the then unknown Amazon country in 1848. But it is as a political philosopher and dauntless worker in the field of social advance that Dr. Russel Wallace is chiefly known. The son of a Scottish gentleman of means, he is an enthusiastic supporter of every movement which tends to uplift the working people, and is president of the Land Nationalisation Society. Dr. Wallace is busily occupied, despite his great age in writing another social tract for the "Times." He keeps closely in touch with the movements of the day. In gardening and a quiet game of chess he finds his favourite recreation.

1
This document is a newspaper clipping.
2
The article includes a small picture of ARW.

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Status: Draft transcription [Enclosure (WCP1395.1432)]

For more information about the transcriptions and metadata, see https://wallaceletters.myspecies.info/content/epsilon

Revision history

Transcribed by Wallace, Natalie [2019-12-17]

Please cite as “WCP1395,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 2 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP1395