WCP3874

Letter (WCP3874.3793)

[1]1

Parkstone, Dorset.

Oct[obe]r 27th 1889

George Nicholson Esq[uire]2

My dear Sir

I have written to Mr Thiselton Dyer3 thanking him for the beautiful lot of plants received yesterday also thank you because I have no doubt it is to you I owe the selection of the plants, and they could hardly have been better chosen to please me. The himalayan Cathcartia & Meconopsis4, the Calceolaria5 fucliscoides[?] the Arimulas[?] and the Ericas6 [2] are especially acceptable, and I hope to be able to grow them all satisfactorily.

I return the empty Hamper as I presume you have use for it, and remain | Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
A stamp reading "Royal Gardens | 22 OCT 1880[?]" at the top of the page.
2
George Nicholson (1847-1908), an English botanist and horticulturalist.
3
Sir William Turner Thiselton Dyer (1843-1928), a leading British botanist.
4
Two genera of Himalayan plants.
5
A genus consisting of about 388 species of shrubs, lianas, and herbs found from Patagonia to central Mexico.
6
A genus of approximately 860 evergreen species of flowering plants (heaths or heathers).

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3874.3793)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Watkins Sophia [2012-08-16] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15]

Please cite as “WCP3874,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3874