WCP3944

Letter (WCP3944.3884)

[1]1

Parkstone, Dorset

Dec[embe]r. 8th. 1892

Dear Mr. Harting2

Will you be so good as to send me the volume of "Hooker’s3 Flora of British India"4 which contains the Rhododendrons5. I will not keep it long. I am beginning to grow the Sikkim6 species & want to know all about them. If you are ever at Bournemouth give me a call.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace. [signature]

1
"WALLACE, Alfred" is handwritten in pencil
2
James Edmund Harting, ornithologist and naturalist, lived 1841 — 1928
3
Joseph Dalton Hooker, botanist and explorer, lived 1817 — 1911
4
Refers to Hooker’s book The Flora of British India, published in 1875
5
A genus of plants in the heather family, includes over 1,000 species
6
An Indian state in the Himalayan mountains

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3944.3884)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Wong, Jennifer [2012-08-15] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15]

Please cite as “WCP3944,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3944