WCP1823

Letter (WCP1823.1712)

[1]

Holly House, Barking.E[ssex].

Dec.18th. 1870

Editor of "Nature"

Dear Sir

I send you notice of Leroy's1 book2.

I see you have received "Robinson's3 Wild Garden4". As that subject is rather a hobby of mine, I should like to notice a review [of] it, if you have not yet sent it not.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
Leroy, Charles George (1723-1789). French naturalist and man of letters.
2
ARW probably refers to the 1870 English translation of Leroy's Lettres philosophiques sur l'intelligence et la perfectibilité des animaux, avec quelques letters sur l'homme, originally published in 1764. (see Leroy, C. G. 1870 [1764]. The Intelligence and Perfectibility of Animals From a Philosophic Point of a View, with a Few Letters on Man. London: Chapman and Hall.
3
Robinson, William (1838-1935). Irish horticulturist, publisher and gardener at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Regent's Park 1861-66.
4
Robinson, William, 1870.The Wild Garden; Or, Our Groves and Shrubberies made Beautiful by the Naturalization of Hardy Exotic Plants: with a Chapter on the Garden of British Wild Flowers. London: John Murray.

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Transcribed by Pearson, Keon [2013-07-19] Transcription checked by Beros, Matt [2019-12-20]

Please cite as “WCP1823,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP1823