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WCP4007

Letter (WCP4007.3950)

[1]

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

Easter Monday [17 Apr. 1865]1

Dear Newton2

I have no abstract of my paper on Parrots,3 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. Hist. work for the "Reader" so fear I can do nothing for the "Ibis" just yet.

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

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

A. Newton Esq.

[3]4

1
See note 4.
2
Newton, Alfred (1829-1907). British zoologist and ornithologist. Founding member of the British Ornithologists' Union.
3
Wallace, A. R. 1864. On the parrots of the Malayan Region, with remarks on their habits, distribution, and affinities, and the descriptions of two wew species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (28 June): 272-295, 1 map.
4
In Newton’s handwriting, “A. R. Wallace, London. April 17/18/65. Answered April 18/65.” The letter has not been found.

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Revision history

Transcribed by Szentgyorgyi, Katherine [2012-09-17] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Lucas, Paula [2020-08-27] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP4007,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4007