WCP3168

Letter (WCP3168.3136)

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3560 Goss st

Denver

July 26/98

Professor Wallace

My dear sir

Your package1 with pictures and paper for self and friend were duly received for which please receive my thanks[.]

I delivered to Mr Smart2 those pertaining to him for which he expressed much gratification[.]

I note your remark as to your sons3 [sic] experiences and pay but I hope you will allow me to say that the experience, I think, will be worth more to him than almost any pay that he could receive. He is still young, and the knowledge he is now acquiring may enable him to avoid many serious mistakes in future.

I admire very much [2] the admirable way in which he and his partner, Mr. Mcalpine,4 join their interests from mutual help and enjoyment[.]

Yes, my daughter5 is still in Cala and as devoted as ever to her profession. I often tell her how happy she should be, that her work, is to her, a pleasure; — to so many it is a slavish drudgery[.]

With best wishes | yours sincerely | Colin S. Eastwood6 [signature]

The articles have not been found.
Smart has not been identified.
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951). Son of ARW.
MacAlpine, George (“Mac”). Friend of William Greenell Wallace.
Eastwood, Alice (1859-1953). Canadian-American botanist and teacher.
Eastwood, Colin Skinner (c1827-1918). Father of Canadian-American botanist Alice Eastwood.

Please cite as “WCP3168,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3168