WCP3221

Letter (WCP3221.3189)

[1]1

27 Tanza Road.

Hampstead.

June 10. 1904.

Dear D[octo]r Wallace,

I remember the passage in "Wild Wales",2 but do not know to what production of Lope de Vega3 it has reference. I will endeavour to ascertain when I am at the Museum,4 which will be very soon: and if I do not succeed will consult some Spanish scholar.

The best authenticated story of an appa- [2] rition related by a celebrated man is, so far as I know, that told by Petrarch.5 Are you acquainted with it [?]

Believe me very truly yours, | R. Garnett6 [signature]

[3]7

Garnett

1
The page is numbered 251 in pencil in the top RH corner and bears the British Museum's stamp on the reverse.
2
Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery is a travel book by the English Victorian gentleman writer George Borrow (1803-1881), first published in 1862.The book recounts Borrow's personal experiences and insights while touring Wales alone on foot after a family holiday in Llangollen in 1854, and has come to be regarded as a source of useful information about the social and geographical history of the country at that time.
3
Lope de Vega y Carpio, Félix (1562-1635). Spanish playwright, poet and novelist. He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Century of Baroque literature.
4
The British Museum, dedicated to human history, art and culture. Established in Bloomsbury, London in 1753 it is largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane.
5
Petrarca, Francesco (Petrarch) (1304-1374). Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch's sonnets were admired and imitated throughout Europe during the Renaissance and became a model for lyrical poetry. In Sonnet 71: Del cibo onde ’l signor mio sempre abbonda he describes the apparition of Laura.
6
British Museum stamp underneath.
7
The author’s name is written in pencil at the top centre of the page.

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Revision history

Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-07-06] Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2018-08-15] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10]

Please cite as “WCP3221,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3221