WCP5615

Letter (WCP5615.6382)

[1]

9. St. Mark's Place1

Regent's Park.

April 12th. 1865

My dear Hanbury/

I passed so bad a night, & have had the pulse at 100 all the morning, that I have been to Dr. Leared2, & he thinks it is still the lag end of the ague3, and that there is nothing but arsenic to finish me off. I therefore send his prescription to you, knowing that I may trust in it being properly made up, which I could not if I put it into the hands of any of the pharmacists close by.

Pray send me the stuff as speedily as possible — by Parcel's Delivery4, if you are not sending to this latitude.

Ever yours | Richd Spruce. [signature]

D[aniel]. Hanbury Esq.

1
Written underneath "Place" is "Crescent".
2
Leared, Arthur (1822-1879) Irish physician and traveller.
3
Archaic word used for a reoccurring illness with associated fever and shivering. Often used as a term for malaria. [OED]
4
Parcels Delivery Company. See Baedeker, K. 1878. London and Its Environs: Including Excursions to Brighton, the Isle of Wight, Etc. : Handbook for Travellers. London: Dulau and Co. [p. 62]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Hamburger, Esther [2015-01-22] Transcription checked by Costa, Leslie [2020-03-19]

Please cite as “WCP5615,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP5615