WCP388

Letter (WCP388.388)

[1]1

I shall be quite agreeable to take your Home News,2 but you must arrange with the publishers to post it regularly to me instead of to you, or it may be too late for the mail. Enquire of Mr. Stevens3 for how long he has paid in advance & when that is finished he will pay the next half year to you. But mind & do not have any mistake so that it misses reaching me as usual.

I think you should discontinue your removal advertisement & substitute some more striking heading as,

Photographic Portraits on Enamel Opal Glass & Paper, Mr. Sims, 7 Conduit St[reet]. invites his friend[s] & th[e] public to examine his specimens in these new & beautiful styles which he has at length succeeded in bringing to perfection.. &c &c &c...

[2] I am sending home in a box with my insects some heavy cloth clothes (keeping a few for use in California) which you can take care of for me till my return. Last mail I only received one Athenaeum,4 but they5 generally come pretty regular. You did not acknowledge the receipt of the funny chineese [sic] pictures[.] I will get a few more now if I can[.] They will do to put in a Scrap Book.

I have nothing more to tell you now but will write again when I have got a passage somewhere.

A R W. [signature]

1
This is a fragment of a letter from ARW to his sister Frances ("Fanny") Sims (née Wallace) or his brother-in-law, Thomas Sims, suggested by van Wyhe and Rookmaaker to be a postscript to the letter at WCP363.363, but could it rather match with WCP385.385? Even if paper not quite the same?
2
The Home News, a Summary of European Intelligence for India and the Colonies, published twice monthly from 7 January 1847 by Messrs Grindlay and Co., 16 Cornhill and 8, St. Martin's Place, Charing Cross, London, ceasing publication in 1898 (Allen's Indian Mail and Register of Intelligence for British and Foreign India, China and all parts of the East. 1846. 4:808]; Thomas, R. 1906. Notes. Capt. Grindlay. Grindlay & Co.'s 'Home News'. Notes and Queries. 10th Series. 6:101-102 [p. 102]; in which it was said to be a weekly newspaper).
3
Stevens, Samuel (1817-1899). British entomologist and dealer in natural history specimens; agent of ARW.
4
"The Athenaeum", a British weekly literary magazine in existence between 1828 and 1921 (Graham, W. J. 1930. The Weekly Journal of Belles-Lettres. 311-344. In: Graham, W. J. English Literary Periodicals. New York, NY, USA: T. Nelson & Sons. [pp. 317-320]).
5
The ‘y’ in ‘they’ has been written in at a later date in blue ink or pencil.

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Status: Edited (but not proofed) transcription [Letter (WCP388.388)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Sloyan, Victoria [2012-11-29] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Watt, Helen [2018-09-11]

Please cite as “WCP388,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP388