WCP3133

Letter (WCP3133.3101)

[1]1

CANFORD MANOR

WIMBORNE

[Dorset]

8 April 1890.

[No salutation]

Lord Wimborne2 presents his compliments to Mr Wallace, and is very sorry he is not able to grant him the permission he asks to be allowed to go [2] all over the fields & woods in search of flowers, as unfortunately the breeding season is just coming in and considerable disturbance to [3]3 the nesting would be caused by searching the covers and hedgerows.

[No valediction or signature]

Page numbered 101 in pencil in top RH corner.
Guest, Ivor Bertie, 1st Baron Wimborne (1835-1914). Welsh industrialist. He succeeded his father to his baronetcy following his death in 1852 and was elevated to the peerage in 1880, as Baron Wimborne of Canford Magna in the County of Dorset.
Page numbered 102 in pencil in top RH corner.

Please cite as “WCP3133,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3133