WCP4009

Letter (WCP4009.3952)

[1]

9, St. Mark's Crescent

Regent's Park. N.W.

May 3rd. [1865]1

Dear Newton

I enclose you a sketch from "Swinhoe"2 who says he has sendt some notes about the Birds.3 Item, he complains fiercely about not getting the "Ibis" regularly.

When I get the 2nd. Number of the "Ibis" I will write a notice for the "Reader" on the two together.4 It is now rather late in the [2] day to notice the first alone.

Hoping you are quite well, & will call when you come to town, (as I am now quite convenient for the Gardens)[.]

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, apparently contemporary hand "A.R. Wallace, London. May 3-4/65".
2
Swinhoe, Robert (1836-1877). British diplomat, naturalist and honorary member of the British Ornithologists' Union.
3
Possibly Swinhoe, Robert, 1865, [Letter dated 1 Dec. 1864, from Takow, S. W. Formosa, on Chinese avifauna]. Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, Notices &c. The Ibis. A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, Series 2, 1(2): [pp. 230-234] and Swinhoe's letter dated 11 Aug. 1864 on the same subject, published in January 1865, The Ibis ... Series 2, 1(1): [pp.107-111].
4
See WCP4008.3951, ARW to Newton, 22 Apr. [1865].

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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 “WCP4009,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4009