WCP4017

Letter (WCP4017.3960)

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Hurstpierpoint,Sussex.

June 29th. 1866

Dear Newton

I much fear it will not be in my power to do any thing for the "Ibis"1 before Octr. I am here to eat fruit & gather orchids for another two or three weeks, & in August I am going for a month to N. Wales.

I have not seen Schlegel's2 paper3 yet but will do so when I return to town, & if a short answer will do [2] you shall have it.

I have not yet determined about my [one word illeg.] I am at present in a very transitional state of existence, and can not yet determine whether I shall finally pitch my tent in London or the Country, or whether I am likely to have room to mount & arrange my coll[ectio]ns properly. I will promise however that if I do part with them you shall have the offer of [3] them.

I do not think I shall be at Nottingham4 this year.

I have commenced working at my neglected Lepidoptera & when I am at one thing I do not feel inclined to turn to anything else till it is done with, so I think birds will have to rest awhile in their boxes.

Yours very faithfully │Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

A[lfred]. Newton Esq.

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1
The Ibis is an ornithological journal published by the British Ornithologists' Union since 1859. See Ibis. 2020. IBIS - International journal of ornithology. <http://www.ibis.ac.uk/> [accessed 25 August 2020].
2
Schlegel, Hermann (1804-1884). German ornithologist, herpetologist and Director of the Leiden Museum of Natural History 1854-84.
3
ARW is possibly referring to an Ibis paper published April 1866. See Schlegel, H. 1866. On some extinct gigantic birds of the Mascarene Islands. Ibis, (n.s.) 2(6): [pp. 146-168]
4
ARW is probably referring to the The British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting to be held in Nottingham in August 1866. He did, however attend the meeting. See Wallace, A. R. 1867. Address: President of the Department of Anthropology [given in Nottingham on 23 August 1866] Report of the 36th Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [Notices and Abstracts of Miscellaneous Communications to the Sections], London: John Murray [pp. 93-94].
5
An annotation in the top left margin on an otherwise blank page reads "A. R. Wallace, Hurstpierpoint. June 29/30 /66." "Answered June 30/66."

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Transcribed by Royce, Isobel [2012-12-10] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Costa, Leslie [2020-08-31]

Please cite as “WCP4017,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4017