WCP3273

Postcard (WCP3273.3241)

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April 19th 1909.

The Demise anniversary of Charles DARWIN1

Prof Oscar Alexander Young2 ([illeg.] Yung) has been desired in exalted quarters to lend at the forthcoming centennial exhibition apropos the above intellectual giant for & thro all the ages at Cambridge June 12th the writers impromptu oil sketch himself Tuesday April 5th 1876 at Down, titled "A great eventide”, should the same be entertained in the affirmative then, in receipt of a literary acquiescence the success and instrument will be forwarded to the illustration minded [illeg.] (the recipient for the momentary transition from Burlington House. W.R.A.2

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Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882). British naturalist, geologist and author, notably of On the Origin of Species (1859).
Postmarked on postcard, "19.4.09 / Dr. Wallace Russell Wallace Broadstone Dorset ENGLAND" / The North Pole Atelier New Green Gt. C.

Please cite as “WCP3273,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3273