WCP3933

Letter (WCP3933.3872)

[1]

Broadstone, Wimborne

August 29th. 1906

My dear Flora1

Yours just received. Of course what I said yesterday about allowing no one to examine the collections does not apply to a man in Mr. Hemsley’s2 high official position.

I think you, or your mother had better tell him exactly what occurred at the interview at Kew, & of the definite offer made to Mrs. Britton3 & accepted by her.

In haste | yours &c. | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
Flora Mitten, sister-in-law of Wallace, (1850-1941).
2
William Botting Hemsley (1843-1924), English botanist and was Keeper of the Herbarium at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
3
Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (nee Knight), husband of botanist Nathaniel Britton and bryologist, 1857-1934.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3933.3872)]

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Revision history

Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-07-16] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2014-04-28] Transcribed by Rosen, Gabriel [2014-07-16]

Please cite as “WCP3933,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3933