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DESIGN RESEARCH UNIT
37 PARK STREET LONDON W1
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W. G. Wallace2 Esq[uire].,
61 East Avenue,
Winton,
Bournemouth
13th March 1951
Dear Mr. Wallace,
Festival of Britain 19513
I have been advised by Sir James Marchant4 to get in touch with you and should be very grateful if you could assist us in connection with the above exhibition.
As part of a display on Alfred Russel Wallace, we are anxious to show a diary or notebook which he himself kept. The only volumes of which we have any knowledge are at the British Museum5 and the regulations governing the Museum do not allow of any loan of books or manuscripts. Sir James thinks it possible that you may have something which you would be willing to loan the Festival Office for exhibition. This would be displayed in the Dome of Discovery6, in the section dealing with the work of Huxley7, Darwin8 and Wallace. In the case of the first two scientists, we have been successful in obtaining on loan notebooks and sketches and we hope to be able to do the same in the case of Alfred Russel Wallace.
I should much appreciate any help you can give us.
Yours sincerely, | Esther Atkin9 [signature]
Esther Atkin
Assistant to the Designer
Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP6050.6999)]
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Envelope addressed to "W. G. Wallace, Esq., 61 East Avenue, Winton, Bournemouth", with stamp, postmarked "LONDON W. I. A | 7:15PM | 13 MCH | 1951". Pencil note on front of envelope in W. G. Wallace's hand: "A.R.W. Re Festival of Britain." Pencil notes in W. G. Wallace's hand on back of envelope reads: "Suggest | MS of Palms of Amazon in possession of Linnean Soc. nov. 1947. Eight Note Books given to Linn Soc May 1936 | Two notebooks given to B. M. Natural History Feb 1917 | 20 Sketches some coloured in scrapbook". [Envelope (WCP6050.7000)]
Please cite as “WCP6050,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6050