WCP4631

Letter (WCP4631.4945)

[1]

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

Aug. 16th. 1866

Dear Westwood2

I enclose Receipt for £10. with thanks.3

The Cleridae4 are at your service price £35 on the terms you mention, — which is I think what I offered them for last time we talked or wrote about it.

Yours very truly| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

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
ARW had written to Westwood [WCP4630_L4944] requesting payment for some butterfly specimens Westwood purchased for the collections at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Westwood regularly purchased insect specimens from ARW for the museum (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]).
4
A family of beetles; checkered beetles

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Revision history

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

Please cite as “WCP4631,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 2 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4631