WCP2078

Letter (WCP2078.1968)

[1]1

Altona2

17th December 1866.

Dear Sir,

Since I had the pleasure to see you at London, I found so much busy at home, that it was not possible to make you the collection of butterflies earlier than these days. I must beg your pardon therefore and hope to hear from you, that this sending gave satisfaction. I send you enclosed the list of all the papers contained in [2] the small box with your adress [sic]. This box is send [sic] off today together with others in one large box to Mr. E. Higgins3, who will take care of them and deliver it to you.

Please accept my best thanks for the kindness with which you did receive me at London and if your way should bring you near to Altona, I hope you will do me the [3] honour to see my collection.

If you should like to have also a collection of Philippine Nymphalidae,4 I shall be glad to send you [specimens] of them. Knowing very well that your duplicates are much richer than mine I am quite sure to find enough among them to place against my Nymphalidae.

Meantime I have the honour to remain, dear Sir, | Your obedient | Georg Semper [signature]

Alf. R. Wallace Esq. [4]5

1
Page 1 is numbered 22 by the repository. Every second subsequent page has a consecutive handwritten number written in the upper right-hand corner of the page.
2
A town near Hamburg, Germany; now a borough of that city.
3
Possibly Higgins, Edmund Thomas, (d. 1880?). British? Dealer in natural history specimens.
4
The largest family of butterflies. [Wikipedia]
5
The letter ends at the foot of page [[3]]. Page [[4]] is annotated in ink in ARW's? hand, undated, with twelve sums of listed amounts of money, three with the associated headers or labels "Garden" "Self" "Wife" and "Directors fee." "Semper" and "George Semper" is written vertically in pencil in an unknown hand at right angles on the right and left of the page.

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Status: Edited (but not proofed) transcription [Letter (WCP2078.1968)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Powell, Jane [2015-06-05] Transcription checked by Lucas, Paula [2019-12-20]

Please cite as “WCP2078,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2078