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 15th Octr. 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 [sic] look at some of the rarer Butterflies & Moths received from Mr Wallace2 & 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 croesus3 which I am now selling fine & perfect at £5 & £6 the pair, also the beautiful new Papilio Telemachus4 more beautiful than Ulysses5 at £5 the pair others new & fine at from 5/ to 30/ each — Mr Wallace has not yet found the beautiful Orn[ithoptera] D'Urvilliana6 but he hopes to do so, Mr W[allace] sends very few moths as he has not much time to attend to them.
From other countries I have some collected by Mr Bates7 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 Dr. Welwitsch,8 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 Stevens9 [signature]
Dr. C. Felder10
Advocat Kohlmarkt No.1119.
Vienna
[2]Dr. C. Felder
Advocat of the Imp[erial]. Court,
Kohlmarkt No. 1119
à Vienna.
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