WCP4630

Letter (WCP4630.4944)

[1]

9 St. Mark's Crescent, Regent's Park. N.W.1

August 10th. 1866

Dear Westwood2

It will be a very great convenience to me, if you can let me have the £10 for the Coleoptera3 you had for the University Museum4 in December last, as I have a heavy "Call" to pay this month. Hoping you & Mrs. Westwood5 are quite well[.]

Believe me| Yours very truly| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

J.O. Westwood Esq[uire].

1
ARW’s residence from March 1865-6/20 July 1867 and early July 1868-22 March 1870.
2
Westwood, John Obadiah (1805-1893). British entomologist and archaeologist.
3
Specimens of butterflies.
4
Westwood regularly purchased insect specimens from ARW for the collections at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Earl of Cranbrook and Mann, D. J. 2016. Alfred Russel Wallace and His Collections in the Malay Archipelago, with a Proposal for International Cooperation to Produce a Digital Catalogue. In: Das, I. and Tuen, A. A. (Eds). Naturalists, Explorers and Field Scientists in South-East Asia and Australasia. New York: Springer. [pp. 15-50, on p. 40]).
5
Westwood, Eliza (née Richardson, 1804/5-1882). Wife of John Obadiah Westwood, married in 1839.

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Revision history

Transcribed by Lord, Annette [2012-07-26] Transcription checked by Costa, Leslie [2020-06-09]

Please cite as “WCP4630,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 2 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4630