WCP4007

Letter (WCP4007.3950)

[1]

9, St. Mark's Crescent Regent's Park. N.W[.]

Easter Monday [17 Apr. 1865]1

Dear Newton

I have no abstract of my paper on Parrots2, but will try in a day or two to make one for you.

I have not yet got my collections in order & have besides undertaken to do some of the Nat[ural]. Hist[ory]. work for the "Reader"3 so fear I can do nothing for the "Ibis"4 just yet.

[2] I hear a grand "Conversazione["] & Exhibition is proposed at Cambridge, have you any hand in it?5

In haste | Believe me | Yours very sincerely | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

A. Newton Esq.

1
The back of page [[2]] is annotated in ink in an unknown but apparently contemporary hand "A.R. Wallace, London. April 17-18/65 | Answered April 18/65." Newton's reply to ARW has not been found.
2
Wallace, A. R. 1864. On the Parrots of the Malayan Region, With Remarks on Their Habits, Distribution, and Affinities, And the Descriptions of Two New Species [a paper read at the ZSL meeting of 28 June 1864]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1864: 272-295. See WCP4010.3953, ARW to Alfred Newton 30 June [1865].
3
The Reader: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Art. London. 1863 -1867. Landow, George P. 2016. The Victorian Web. <http://www.victorianweb.org/periodicals/reader.html> [accessed 19 Aug. 2020].
4
Newton, Alfred (ed.) 1865. The Ibis. A Magazine of General Ornithology. New series. 1. First published in 1859, when the editor was Philip Lutley Sclater.
5
Probably the annual public exhibition by the Cambridge Natural History Society, which was and is referred to as a "Conversazione". Wikipedia. Conversazione. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversazione#University_of_Cambridge > [accessed 19 Aug. 2020]

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Transcribed by Szentgyorgyi, Katherine [2012-09-17] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Lucas, Paula [2020-08-27]

Please cite as “WCP4007,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4007