WCP3722

Letter (WCP3722.3629)

[1]

Broadstone, Wimborne

Septr. 27th. 1902

My dear Mitten

Please note address! We are in lodgings here for a time while house is finishing. Our furniture is all in. Will is with us helping to get things straight. I received the other day a few seeds from Cape verde Islands, from some kind of Zool. collector employed by the Portuguese Govt. Two which seem interesting, I enclose. Leucaena glauca1 is a name I cannot find in the Dict. of Gardening. [2] Do you know it? The other called "Native beans" is very pretty. have you ever seen it before? It may be a Phaseolus.

He promises to send me more seeds & some bulbs from Portugal & Cape Verde Is. Lilium nepalense2 not out yet. one I have is pure white.3

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
Leucaena glauca is a synonym for Leucaena leucocephala. It is commonly known by other names such as the white leadtree, jumbay and white popinac. It is native to southern Mexico and northern central America but has now become naturalized across the tropics.
2
This is lily which is native to the southern slopes of the Himalayas.
3
This sentence is written vertically in the left hand margin.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3722.3629)]

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Transcribed by Lester, Ahren [2013-06-28]

Please cite as “WCP3722,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 4 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3722