WCP3552

Letter (WCP3552.3449)

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

Jan[uar]y. 11th. 1893

The Librarian Royal Geog. Society.1

Dear Sir

Will you be so good as to send me the earliest volume of Sir T. Mitchell’s2 Explorations in New South Wales3 — that describing his explorations on the East side of the Blue mountains is what I especially want. Also any general account of the Geology of New South Wales, if you have such.

I also want to see — if you have it — Professor J. D. Whitney’s4 "Yosemite Guide Book"5, or failing this, any other good account of the valley. Also any book you have giving and[sic] account of the Geology [2] of California.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
The Royal Geographical Society was founded in 1830.
2
Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, surveyor and explorer, lived 1792 — 1855.
3
Refers to Mitchell’s two-volume book Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia; with Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the Present Colony of New South Wales, published in 1839.
4
Josiah Dwight Whitney, geologist and professor at Harvard University, lived 1819 — 1896.
5
Whitney originally published The Yosemite Book in 1869, and this volume was well known for its detailed photographs; a later edition of this book was created without photographs and was called The Yosemite Guide-Book.

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Transcribed by Wong, Jennifer [2012-08-15] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15]

Please cite as “WCP3552,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 19 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3552