WCP3079

Letter (WCP3079.3047)

[1]

6. Royal Crescent — Bath

21st January 1866

My dear Wallace,

I knew you to be so busy a man, that I did not expect to hear from you in reply to my last note. This is merely to say I hope to find you in your new quarters1 when I come to Town, [2] and some fine day should like to stroll through the Z[oological] Gardens2 with you.

I hear from Crookshank3 that the Marchese Doria4 has been very successful with his collections, particularly in birds, he has found a species of grouse—

I shall go out [3] next winter, stay three months en route & reach Sarawak as the S.W. monsoon begins.

In haste,

Yours sinc[erel]y | J Brooke [signature]

Al. Wallace Esq.

P. S. The Tuan Mada's5 book is just out.6

1
'new quarters' in underlined pencil and a pencil annotation 'St Mark[']s Crescent' is added above the underlined passage.
2
The gardens of the Zoological Society of London was established by Sir Stamford Raffles and Sir Humphry Davy in 1826 and opened to Fellows of the society in 1828. In 1829 the ZSL was granted a Royal Charter by King George IV. The Zoological gardens amitted paying visitors to aid funding in 1847. (Ito, T. London Zoo and the Victorians 1828-1859. Suffolk: Boydell Press. pp.22-25).
3
Crookshank, Arthur Chichester (1824-1891). A cousin of James Brooke and administrator at Sarawak.
4
Doria, Giacomo (1840-1913). Italian naturalist, entomologist and director of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Genoa 1867-1913.
5
The Tuan Mada (literally "Little Lord") refers to Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke (1829-1917) who held the title of the Heir Presumptive to the Rajah of Sarawak. Charles Brooke became the second White Rajah of Sarawak on the 3 August 1868.
6
Brooke, C. 1866. Ten Years in Sarawak. 2 vols. London: Tinsley Brothers.

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Revision history

Transcribed by Laverty, Martin [2013-03-26] Transcription checked by Beros, Matt [2020-03-19]

Please cite as “WCP3079,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 11 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3079