WCP5473

Postcard (WCP5473.6204)

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Broadstone, Dorset.

March 26th. 1903

Dear Sir

Please cross my cheques in future Poole instead of Parkstone as I have removed my banking account to that Branch instead of Parkstone, for greater convenience.

Yours truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

[2]

D.A. Bumsthed [sic] Esq. I Secretary G.R. and In. Compy. | 26, Pall Mall | London S.W.2

Written on a postcard which is addressed in Wallace’s hand. The address side has been annotated at right angles in red ink in another hand "A. R. Wallace | 26 Mar. 1903 | n[?] 27 | cheques to be crossed Poole branch | P.O.B. 33".
D A Bumstead is listed in as actuary to the General Reversionary Society, in White, William. (1893) The insurance register 1893: containing, with other information, a record of the yearly progress and the present financial position of British insurance associations. Charles and Edwin Layton, London, p. 34.

Please cite as “WCP5473,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP5473