WCP3826

Letter (WCP3826.3745)

[1]

Godalming,

June 17th 1889

Mr Geo[rge]. Nicholson

Dear Sir,

I send you today by Parcel Post a specimen of a plant which I am in hope you may not have in your Alpine garden— Aquilegia brevistyla1 which I found 2 years since in the Rocky Mountains & succeeded in sending home alive.2 I divided my plant this year, after flowering badly— & send you one. It grows among loose rocks & stones at from 12,000 to 13,000 elevation [2] in Colorado. These plants came from Gray’s Peak.

Hoping it may be acceptable

I remain | Yours truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

P.S. Please note that after June 24th. My address will be— Corfe View Parkstone Dorset

to which place I am removing.

A.R.W. [signature]

[3]

Ack[knowledge]d

19.6.89

address entered

22.11.89

1
A member of the butterflower family known by the common name ‘sunflower columbine’. It is native to North America.
2
See 23 July 1887 entry in Charles H. Smith and Megan Derr (eds.), Alfred Russel Wallace’s 1886-1887 Travel Diary: The North American Lecture Tour (Manchester: Siri Scientific Press, 2013), p. 143.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3826.3745)]

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Transcribed by Lester, Ahren [2013-06-05]

Please cite as “WCP3826,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3826