WCP3557

Letter (WCP3557.3454)

[1]1

Portsmouth

Feb[ruary]. 8th. 1854

Dear Sir2

I have received this morning a letter from the Admiralty3 offering me a circuitous passage to Australia in the "Juno",4 which I have written to accept.

If you can get me a letter of introduction to Capt[ai]n Fremantle5 I should be much obliged.

In haste | Yours faithfully | Alfred R Wallace [signature]

Dr Norton Shaw.

1

The letter is endorsed in another hand, probably that of the recipient: "1854

Wallace AR. Feb. 9th. —".

2
Shaw, Henry Norton ( -1868). British Royal Navy Surgeon and Diplomat; Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, London.
3
The British government body in charge of Royal Navy administration and operations (The National Archives of the UK. N.d. Catalogue description. Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies. Reference: ADM. Discovery. The National Archives' catalogue. <http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4> [accessed 12 July 2018]).
4
HMS Juno, British Royal Navy frigate, 26 guns, launched 1844, lost 1880 (Winfield, R. 2014. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1817-1863: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. [p. ***]).
5
Fremantle, Stephen Grenville (1810-1860). British Royal Navy officer; Captain, HMS Juno, Australian Station, 1853-1857.

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Revision history

Transcribed by Parfitt, Elisabeth [2012-05-21] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Watt, Helen [2018-07-30]

Please cite as “WCP3557,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3557