WCP3722

Letter (WCP3722.3629)

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Broadstone, Wimborne

Septr. 27th. 1902

My dear Mitten1

Please note address! We are in lodgings here for a time while house is finishing. Our furniture is all in. Will2 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 glauca 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. one I have is pure white.

He promises to send me more seeds & some bulbs from Portugal & Cape Verde Is. Lilium nepalense not out yet.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Mitten, William (1819-1906). Father-in-law of ARW; chemist and authority on bryophytes.
Wallace (née Mitten), Annie (1846-1914). British. Wife of ARW; daughter of William Mitten.

Please cite as “WCP3722,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3722