WCP5253

Published letter (WCP5253.5787)

[1]1 [p. 6]

Old Orchard, Broadstone, Dorset.

"Prof. L. H. Pammel.

Dear Sir:

Thanks for your kind letter of April, last. Since receiving it I have been suffering from eczema and some other diseases, which has made me unable to cope with my ever growing correspondence. I am afraid I have mislaid the paper on the Bog Flora of Iowa. I amuse myself with growing plants, especially shrubs, Alpine and Bog plants. Perhaps you could get for me Primulas from the Rock Mts. of P. Parryi, P. Rusbyi, or P. suffrutescens. To grow such plants is now one of my chief pleasures.

Yours very truly,

Alfred R. Wallace.

1
Editor Charles H. Smith's Note: The first chapter of L. H. Pammel's Prominent Men I Have Met (1926) is devoted to his contacts with Wallace. Pammel met Wallace in April 1887 at Washington University in St. Louis, where Pammel worked at the time. Wallace was on his way through town, and was looking for William Trelease, who was elsewhere. Later Pammel opened up a correspondence with Wallace, and in his book he reproduces a letter (dated 20 Nov. 1911) from him on page 6.

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Status: Draft transcription [Published letter (WCP5253.5787)]

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Transcribed by Smith, Charles Hyde [2013-04-11] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-04-11]

Please cite as “WCP5253,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP5253