Ɛpsilon

WCP271

Letter (WCP271.271)

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

April 20th. 1896

My dear Violet1

I enclose you a £5 note. Ma2 tells me she wrote to you on Saturday & I suppose told you of Captn. Marshall Hall’s3 sudden death. She enclosed you Mrs. Lowe’s letter so, I should think you & Ma & Eleanor,4 could live there very cheaply. It would cost you about £5 each for travelling there & back. You [2] could take tea, & a stock of tinned meat &c. but you must think over it yourselves & decide soon. It is a beautiful country with grand excursions within a days walking.

Will5 had a pleasant time at Bakewell with the Clarionettes, but he was too late for either Nunquam6 or the others, & the Bounder was not there. I will send [3] you the weeds in a day or two & try & get the newts.

In haste | Your affectionate Pa | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
. Wallace, Violet Isabel (1869-1945). Daughter of ARW; teacher.
2
Wallace (née Mitten), Annie (1846-1914). British. Wife of ARW; daughter of William Mitten.
3
Hall, Marshall (1831-1896). Created the International Glaciers Commission 1894 Congress in Zurich.
4
Sidgwick (née Balfour), Eleanor Mildred (1845 - 1936). Psychical researcher; principal of Newnham College of the University of Cambridge; wife of Henry Sidgwick.
5
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951). Son of ARW.
6
Blatchford, Robert Peel Glanville (1851-1943). British author and journalist. Wrote for the Sunday Chronicle under "Nunquam", Editor of the Clarion.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP271.271)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Noriega, Melisa [2013-07-11] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-07-11] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2024-11-11]

Please cite as “WCP271,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP271