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WCP3276

Postcard (WCP3276.3244)

[1]

May 26th 1909

The 42nd Birthday of H.R.H the Princess of Wales1& the equine festival of the British Race the Derby.

Apropos the forthcoming Centennial exhibition2 appertaining to all that's Darwinian, the writer proposes to reach the illustrious scientific minded recipient via Burlington House with the bespoke portrait. 5 4.76. Down, 'A Great Eventide! Monday afternoon June 7th, on the way up far north viz. to Spitzbergen, to glen may be, from Weismanian sources the outcome of the writers erstwhile [illeg.] contemporary procundre who fled Poland July 11th 1897 at the psychological moment that the Kaizer through a nautical [illeg.] received it. au revoir.

SCHAWZEN ADLER IN DEN AUGE

[2]

To Dr Alfred Russell [sic] Wallace

Broadstone

DORSET

ENGLAND

The North Pole Atelier

New Green H. C.

BERLIN

1
Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes "Mary of Teck" (1867-1953). Wife of King George V; Queen of the United Kingdom 1910-1936.
2
On 22-24 June 1909, over 400 scientists and dignitaries from 167 different countries gathered at Cambridge to celebrate the centenary of Darwin's birth and the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species.

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Status: Draft transcription [Postcard (WCP3276.3244)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Paterson, Gavin [2020-06-09] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP3276,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3276