WCP4620

Postcard (WCP4620.4934)

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We shall be very glad to see you & your cousin on Saturday. This third arctic winter is making me think seriously of emigrating!

A. R. W. [signature]

Corfe View

Friday morn[in]g

Status: Draft transcription [Postcard (WCP4620.4934)]

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Transcribed by Lord, Annette [2012-07-26] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15]

Please cite as “WCP4620,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4620

Looking forward to seeing Meldola and his cousin at the weekend.

Record number: WCP4620
Item number: 4934
From: Alfred Russel Wallace
To: Raphael Meldola
Date: [6?] January 1893
Sent from: Corfe View, Parkstone, Dorset, England
Sent to: c/o Mrs Back, 2 Marine Villas, Swanage, Dorset, England
Source of text: Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 278
Physical description: Postcard, 2 pp. of contemporary text
Hand: Handwritten in the author’s hand and signed by author
Language: English