WCP1681

Letter (WCP1681.1558)

[1]

24 Bloomsbury Street London W.C.

Augt 2nd. 1860

My dear Sir

Your esteemed letter of 28th July is only to hand & I have as you requested drawn on you at Sight for 840 florins & in a day or two I have no doubt you have will have the Bill presented.

I have just received another sending of Butterflies from Mr. Wallace1 from Menado & as soon as they are ready for [2] Sale will make you up a sending from them & from Moreton bay & other parts of Australia of Butterflies & moths & India[?] & will at the same time send the Orthoptera for your friend.

Mons[ieur]. Deyrolle2of Paris is at present with me & [I] expect he will be engaged a few days longer looking over my Insects for sale of which I have a large number particularly Coleoptera.

I am | dear Sir | yrs faithfully & obl[ige]d. | Samuel Stevens3 [signature]

Dr. C. Felder4

[3] I am afraid I have only a very imperfect ♂ of Callithea Batesii or[?] Markii5 & never now expect to see this again as Mr. Bates6 does not return to [the] Brazils, he is now settled in Business with his Brother7. I have a Sinopalpus8 ♂ imperfect but no female at all which is exceedingly rare I never saw but one ♀.

1
ARW.
2
Probably Deyrolle, Achille (1813-1865). French entomologist.
3
Stevens, Samuel (1817-1899). British entomologist and dealer in natural history specimens; agent of ARW.
4
Felder, Cajetan von (1814-1894). Austrian lawyer, politician, and entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera.
5
Callithea is a butterfly genus.
6
Bates, Henry Walter (1825-1892). British naturalist, explorer and close friend of ARW.
7
Bates, Frederick (1829-1903). British brewery manager and entomologist; younger brother of Henry Walter Bates.
8
Sinopalpus was a genus of Coleoptera (beetle).

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Revision history

Transcribed by Arias, Lily C. [2012-10-18] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Lucas, Paula [2019-02-18]

Please cite as “WCP1681,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP1681