WCP3860

Letter (WCP3860.3779)

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Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne.

June 11th 1911

Lieut. Col. Prain2 C.I.E. &c.

Dear Sir

Many thanks for the list of Articles, papers &c. on Primulas, which will be very useful to me. Also for your kindness in sending me copies of the Kew Bull. on introduced plants since 1903. As these however have now not yet reached me I fear they have been [2] overlooked in your office and therefore write without further delay.

Though we have been a month here without any rain (though much has fallen within a few miles of us) the Alpines you and other kind friends have sent me are looking fairly well and many are coming into flower.

Yours very truly| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

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Round stamp of “ROYAL GARDENS KEW 6 JUL 1911”.
Prain, David (1857-1944). Scottish botanist who worked in India at the Calcutta Botanical Garden. Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 1905-1922.
In Prain’s handwriting, “sent 6.VI.11.” The letter has not been found.

Please cite as “WCP3860,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3860