WCP502

Telegram (WCP502.502)

[1]1

POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS.

[Post Office date-stamped] BROADSTONE B JA[NUARY] 8 [19]13

Ashley R[oa]d East Parkstone

Handed in at 11.55..M

Received here at [illegible].M

TO Dr A. R. Wallace O[rder]. [of] M[erit]. Broadstone

Many happy returns2 may you complete your centuary [sic] for the world hath need of such as thee much love from Olive3 and Bertie4

1
This is a printed Post Office Telegraph form with the message hand-written in pencil. The repository reference number "[WP1/8/31]" and the number "128" appear here. The document is annotated "[Cosey?]" and "Unknown".
2
ARW’s 90th birthday fell on 8 January 1913.
3
Comerford-Casey, Olive Bourcicault (1875-?) and Comerford-Casey, Alvina Bertram ("Bertie") (1877-?) daughters of the Reverend George Edward Comerford-Casey (1846-1912), Anglican priest, teacher, botanist and author, who died in Parkstone, Dorset.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Telegram (WCP502.502)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2018-08-15]

Please cite as “WCP502,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 2 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP502