WCP4429

Postcard (WCP4429.4712)

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Broadstone, Wimborne

Dec[embe]^r.. 19^th. 1906

I do not know Dixey personally, but I have with pleasure signed the Certificate as you wish, & sent it on, at once.

We have had here a summer of unprecedented drought, & since it broke up an autumn & winter of almost equally unprecedented wet & fog!

Yours truly| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Status: Draft transcription [Postcard (WCP4429.4712)]

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Transcribed by Lord, Annette [2012-07-18] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15]

Please cite as “WCP4429,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4429

Has signed certificate for Dr Dixey. Weather in Dorset.

Record number: WCP4429
Item number: 4712
From: Alfred Russel Wallace
To: Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date: 19 December 1906
Sent from: Old Orchard, Broadstone, Wimborne, Dorset, England
Sent to: Wykeham House, Banbury Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Source of text: Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 82
Physical description: Postcard, 2 pp. of contemporary text
Hand: Handwritten in the author’s hand and signed by author
Language: English