WCP4743

Letter (WCP4743.5099)

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The Dell, Grays, Essex.

April 14th. 1874

Dear Dr. Hooker

The larva would be useless to me as I have no Yuccas of a flowering age.

I should think Stainton1 & Westwood2 would be more likely to be interested in them.

I wish you joy of the change of Government3 as I suppose the new people are sure to behave extra well. I wish they would let you abolish "bedding out" at Kew.

Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Dr. J[oseph] .D[alton]. Hooker

1
Stainton, Henry Tibbats (1822-1892). British Entomologist. Secretary of the Entomological Society of London 1850-52; Secretary of the Linnean Society 1869-74; Secretary of the Zoological Record Association 1871-86.
2
Westwood, John Obadiah (1805-1893). British entomologist and palaeographer. Hope Professor of Zoology, Oxford University, 1861-93.
3
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) become Prime Minster for the second time in February 1874 following the general election called by William Ewart Gladstone. (Parry, J. Disraeli, Benjamin, earl of Beaconsfield (1804–1881). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. <https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/7689> [accessed 6 October 2020]).

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Transcribed by Cooper, Rod [2013-02-08] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-02-08] Transcription checked by Beros, Matt [2020-06-10]

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