WCP1684

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24 Bloomsbury Street London W.C.

Feby. 4th. 1860

Dear Sir

You no doubt must think me very neglectful in not before replying to your Letter of 15^th Oct^r. but I regret to say that in consequence of the death of my poor Brother¹ last September I have now got an extra amount of work to do which prevents me from attending so fully to my correspondents as I could wish. —

If however you wish it I will at my leasure look at some of the rarer Butterflies & Moths received from M^r Wallace³ & forward to you, my recent arrivals from that gentleman are from Dorey New Guinea & Batchian Moluccas from this latter locality[.] I received the new & Beautiful Ornithoptera croesus which I am now selling fine & perfect at £5 & £6 the pair, also the beautiful new Papilio Telemachus more beautiful than Ulysses at £5 the pair others new & fine at from 5/ to 30/ each — M^r Wallace has not yet found the beautiful Orn. D'Urvilliana but he hopes to do so, M^r W sends very few moths as he has not much time to attend to them.

From other countries I have some collected by M^r Bates³ on the Amazon, others from Bogota &c. — from Sylhet in India, a few from S. Africa &c. &c. —

I have not heard for ^near 2 years from D^r. Welwitsch,² when he last wrote he sayid he would be returning to Europe in 9 months[,] he was going to send some Collections but they never arrived.

Believe me | Dear Sir | Yours Faithfully | Samuel Stevens³ [signature]

D^r. C. Felder⁴

Advocat Kohlmarkt N^o.1119.

Vienna

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Dr. C. Felder

Advocat of the Imp[erial]. Court,

Kohlmarkt N^o. 1119

à Vienna.