WCP6052

Letter (WCP6052.7002)

[1]1

THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL,

HERTFORD,

HERTS.

July 19th 1916

Dear Sir2

I shall be very glad indeed to have the pictures mentioned in your letter, whether D[octo]r. Wallace painted them himself or not. Perhaps you will kindly inform me as to this.

The war prevented our raising a sufficiently large subscription to build a Memorial Laboratory here but we have fitted up part of the Old Building as a Memorial Library which we will formally open next year — our TerCentenary3 [sic].

With many thanks I remain | Yours faithfully | G. W. Kinman4 [signature]

W. G. Wallace Esq[uire].

[2]

Two large paintings on canvas & rollers representing scenes in the Malay Archipelago5 which A[lfred]. R[ussel]. W[allace]. had done to illustrate lectures.

W[illiam]. G[reenell]. W[allace].6

1
The page is numbered [WP16/2/29] in pencil in the top RH corner.
2
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
3
The school was founded as "Richard Hale's School" on April 16, 1617 by the affluent merchant Richard Hale, who wished to "erect a grammar school for the instruction of children in the Latin tongue and other literature in the town of Hertford". The tercentenary of the foundation fell in 1917. The school was known as the "Hertford Grammar School" until 1967, when it was renamed "Richard Hale School". ARW attended from the age of 5 years until financial difficulties forced his family to withdraw him in 1836, when he was aged 14.
4
Kinman, George William (1862-1927) A major in the British Army, he was Headmaster of Hertford Grammar School 1905-1927.
5
From 1854 to 1862 ARW travelled through the Malay Archipelago (now Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia), to collect specimens for sale and to study natural history. Accounts of his studies and adventures there were published in 1869 as The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel with Studies of Man and Nature London, Macmillan & Co.
6
Annotation in ink in the hand of the recipient.

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Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2018-08-15]

Please cite as “WCP6052,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6052