WCP2384

Letter (WCP2384.2274)

[1]1

Mount Avenue

Ealing. W

Nov[ember]. 23. 1878

My dear Sir

Many thanks for your note and pamphlet[.]2

The subject is one which interests me greatly in all ways — scientific and practical — so that I shall read your [2] article with much interest and shall take action in the Chronicle3 accordingly[.]

Faithfully y[our]s | Maxwell Masters4,5 [signature]

Alf[?] Wallace

1
Text in another hand in the top right corner reads "429".
2
Wallace's pamphlet on the replanting of Epping Forest was discussed in The Gardeners' Chronicle, London, December 28, 1878, No. 261, Vol. X, p. 809-810. Biodiversity Heritage Library, <biodiversity library.org> [accessed 23 July 2015].
3
The Gardeners' Chronicle was a journal of gardening and horticulture published in London in the 19th and 20th centuries.
4
Masters, Maxwell Tylden (1833-1907). Botanist and journal editor. He was for many years from 1865 the editor of The Gardeners' Chronicle. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
5
There is a British Museum stamp in red ink below the signature to the right.

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Transcribed by Ghosh, Susan [2018-08-15]

Please cite as “WCP2384,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2384