WCP4008

Letter (WCP4008.3951)

[1]

9, St. Mark's Crescent

Regent's Park. N.W.

April 22nd. [1865]1

Dear Newton

You are really too kind in your acknowledgement, for the very little I can do to oblige you.

When I get the 2nd. number of the "Ibis"2 I will put a notice of both in the Reader.3 It is rather late now for No. 1. alone. This week I [2] have given the Z[oological]. Gardens a turn. I hope you approve of what I have said about improvements &c.4

Yours very sincerely | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
The back of page [[2]] is annotated in an unknown, apparently contemporary, hand ""A.R. Wallace, London. Apr. 22-23/65".
2
Newton, Alfred (ed.) 1865. The Ibis. A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, Series 2, 1(2):119-230.
3
It is not clear what ARW refers to, but possibly to reports by Robert Swinhoe in 1865 in The Ibis; see WCP4009.3952, ARW to Newton, 3 May [1865]. No digitized 1865 copies have been found of The Reader: A Review of Literature, Science, and Art. London.
4
Not found. By implication, published in The Reader. See note 3. Nothing found in the publications of the Zoological Society of London or in The Ibis, 1865. ARW wrote to Sclater in 1869 suggesting improvements to the gardens; See WCP1727.1610.

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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 “WCP4008,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4008