WCP2109

Letter (WCP2109.1999)

[1]

D. Appleton & Co.

Publishers, Booksellers and Stationers,

90, 92 & 94 Grand Street, Corner of Greene,

New York, Sept[ember] 17. 1868

My dear Sir

Your note of Aug. 27th has been duly received,1 and I am considerably surprised to hear that you will publish an account of your Travels[.] So much time has elapsed since you returned to London.

In my work I have referred to your travels in two or three places in such a manner as you could desire.

I suspect my book2 is likely to be before the public in advance of yours as we have finished our work so much sooner than I had expected that Mr. [2] Murray3 can bring it out whenever he pleases.

A wealthy banker in Wall St. has purchased all my collections4— the bird set about double the rates you have mentioned. My bird of paradise Mr Gould5 has purchased for £10 & it is now on its way to London.

My friend besides purchasing all my collections has given me a Professorship of Natural History in Madison University.6

I enclose an order on Mr Murray for one of my books and would like to have you give me one on your American publisher.

My collection nearly all go to [3] Madison University and as I shall have control of them I doubt not we may effect some exchanges.

Very truly yours | Albert. S. Bickmore [signature]

P.S. You may direct as above & the firm will forward the letter.

1
ARW's letter to Albert S. Bickmore on 27 August 1868 is presumed lost.
2
Bickmore, A. S. 1868. Travels in the East Indian Archipelago. London: John Murray.
3
Murray, John (1851-1928). British publisher.
4
Colgate, James Boorman (1818-1904). American financier and founder of the New York Gold Exchange.
5
Gould, John (1804-1881). British ornithologist and publisher.
6
Ebenezer Dodge, President of Madison University at Hamilton, New York, invited Albert S. Bickmore to accept a Professorship of Zoology and Geology, founded by James Boorman Colgate in 1868. (Bickmore, A. S. 1908. Autobiography with a Historical Sketch of the Founding and Early Development of the American Museum of Natural History. 2 vols. Unpublished Manuscript. Vol 2. p.1. <http://hdl.handle.net/2246/6132> [accessed 15 October 2019].)

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Status: Edited (but not proofed) transcription [Letter (WCP2109.1999)]

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Transcribed by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-03-07] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-03-07] Transcription checked by Beros, Matt [2020-09-15]

Please cite as “WCP2109,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2109