WCP3276

Postcard (WCP3276.3244)

[1]

May 26th 1909

The 42nd birthday of HRH the Princess of Wales1at the equine festival of the British race the Derby.2

Apropos the forthcoming centennial exhibition appertaining to all that's Darwinian,3 the writer proposes to reach[?] the illustrious pecentific[?] minded recipient via Burlington House4 with the bespoke portrait. 54.76. Down, 'a grey[?] eventide', Monday afternoon June 7th, on the way up far north viz. to Spitzbergen,5 to glen may be, from Wellmanian[?] sources the outense of the writers erstwhile seconds[?] the contemporary pro[?] under who fled Poland July 11th 1899 at the psychological moment that the Kaiser through a nautical festival received it.

au revoir

SCHANZEN ADLER IN DEN AUGE[2]

To Dr Alfred Russell Wallace

Broadstone

DORSET

ENGLAND

The North Pole Atelier[?]

New Green H.

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
The Derby Stakes, Britain's most prestigious horse race. Run in June at Epsom, Surrey since 1780.
3
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.
4
Building in Piccadilly, London occupied by the Royal Academy.
5
Norwegian island in the Arctic Circle.

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

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Revision history

Transcribed by Paterson, Gavin [2020-06-09]

Please cite as “WCP3276,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3276