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WCP5375

Postcard (WCP5375.6085)

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset

March 6th. 1901

Dear Sir[missing text]1

[Missing text] sending me your fine monograp[h] [missing text]bes. Alas! I cannot read Germa[n] [missing text] [s]ure I should find the greatest interest in it. The maps are beautiful. I will some day [sic] ask some friend to read it and give me the essence. Celebes2 had a fascination for me beyond any other district I have ever visited, and I always look back upon it with pleasure & wonder.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

[2] 3 Drs Sarasin4

Spitalstrann [Spitalstrasse?], 22

Basel

Switzerland

1
The postcard has a rectangle cut out of it from the top edge and some text is missing.
2
An island in Indonesia now called Sulawesi.
3
The reverse of the postcard comprises the address and a postmark.
4
Paul Benedict Sarasin (1856-1929) and Karl Friedrich "Fritz" Sarasin (1859-1942) were Swiss naturalists and second cousins who made a scientific expedition to Celebes (now Sulawesi).

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Postcard (WCP5375.6085)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Sloyan, Victoria [2014-04-15]

Please cite as “WCP5375,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP5375