WCP1780

Letter (WCP1780.1666)

[1]

Hurstpierpoint

May 5th. 1868

Dear Dr. Hooker

Mr. Mitten1 tells me you kindly enquired after me at the Linnean Soirée (where I am sorry I was not able to be present) and he thinks you asked if I was going to Switzerland this year. As I have almost determined to go in June & thinking you may know some gentleman & lady who would join me & my wife, I write to say that I one of our chief objects [2] is to see the Alpine flowers & make a small collection of them, & I should much like a person with similar tastes as a companion.

We propose staying chiefly at Champery (foot of the Dent du Midi) and Zermatt, and come back by Aosta & G[rea]t. St. Bernard if the weather is fine.

Can you be so good as to inform me if there is any portable flora of Switzerland or part of it, in French, — or if Wood's Tourist's Flora2 is the best [3] book I can take with me. Hoping Mrs. Hooker & all your family are quite well.

Believe me | Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Dr. Hooker.3

1
Mitten, William (1819-1906). Father-in-law of ARW; chemist and authority on bryophytes.
2
Woods, Joseph. 1850. The Tourist's Flora: a Descriptive Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the British Islands, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and the Italian Islands. London: Reeve and Benham.
3
The foot of the page below "Dr. Hooker" is annotated in pencil in ARW's hand, "Koch Centr Flora Germania & Helvetica | Gillet & Magne | France proper". See notes 4 and 5.

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Transcribed by Lester, Ahren [2013-02-15] Transcription checked by Lucas, Paula [2019-12-20]

Please cite as “WCP1780,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 7 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP1780