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WCP2797

Letter (WCP2797.2687)

[1]

Lyndhurst

Barrowgate Road

Chiswick

Jan. 8th 1900.

My dear Wallace,

Somewhere or other I have packed away a lot of block proofs of my 'Monograph of the Paradise Birds',1 but I cannot lay my hands on them. I think that I had better not [2] lose any more time searching for them; as I fear they have been thrown away. I think if you write to Messrs. Sotheran, 37 Piccadilly, who published the 'Monograph' and ask them for block proofs to copy for your work, they would lend them to your artist, if it was stated where [3] the plates were taken from. You could thus get all the new forms Pteridophora, Calastrapia, Paradisornis2 etc. They are all figured in the 'Monograph'. I would have written before but I have had influenza and am still poorly.

Yours sincerely | R Bowdler Sharpe3 [signature]

[3]4

1
Sharpe, Richard Bowdler. 1891. Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or birds of paradise and Ptilonorhynchidae, or bower-birds. London: Henry Sotheran & Co.
2
In pencil in ARW’s handwriting, below the word, “Rudolphi Astrarichid”.
3
Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (1847-1909). British ornithologist and museum curator. Founder of the British Ornithologists' Club in 1892.
4
In ARW’s handwriting, “Bowdler Sharpe”.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP2797.2687)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Crane, Megan [2015-04-07] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-04-07] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP2797,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2797