WCP3959

Letter (WCP3959.3899)

[1]

Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne.

March 26th. 1909

Dear Mr Cockerell1

Pray accept the MSS. address, if it is of any use to you. I cannot think of taking anything for it but your good wishes.

I sent the "Darwin letters" at once, because I came across them in a separate packet from the rest — & to save the trouble of a later search & unnecessary correspondence.

I feel sure they will be safe with you.

[2] I have just been routing out all my loose papers & "articles" of various kinds which have been accumulating the last 40 years & can never be found when wanted. I am arranging them in "Stories Universal Portfolios" — which are vey useful, neat, and cheap. His "book-boxes" have always been too dear for me.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle (1867-1962). British bibliophile and collector of medieval manuscripts. Celebrated Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 1909-1937.

Please cite as “WCP3959,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3959