WCP2286

Letter (WCP2286.2176)

[1]1

3. July [18]72.

Private

Dear Sir.

The funds allowed by the Treasury for the Bethnal Green Museum Management this year are on the lowest possible scale — and there are none to provide for any director.2 The destiny of this Museum appears likely3 [2] to be in a Trade Direction & not in a Natural History direction. I send you a catalogue which contains a sketch of the History of the[?] Museum.

I will again bring the Memorial before the Committee of Council.

Yours faithfully | Henry Cole [signature]

Sir Charles Lyell

1
Pages 1-2 are numbered 248-249 in the upper right-hand corner of the page by the repository.
2
Encouraged by Lyell, ARW had hoped to become the new Museum's director. Wallace, A. R. 1905. My Life. A Record of Events and Opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. Vol. 2, p. 90.
3
"likely" is repeated as a catchword on p. [[2]].

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Transcribed by Cooper, Rod [2013-05-16] Transcription checked by Lucas, Paula [2019-12-20]

Please cite as “WCP2286,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2286