WCP6070

Author’s draft (WCP6070.7020)

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61 East Avenue

Bournemouth

[no date]2

T. K. Penniman Esq[uire], M[aster]. [of] A[rts]. &c.

Pitt Rivers Museum,

Oxford.

Dear Sir,

I have a collection of arrowheads which was given to my father (A[lfred]. R[ussel]. Wallace) by the Smithsonian Institution3 in 1887. They come from most of the Eastern States. There is a list showing from which state each specimen came. The British Museum4 has selected 19, there remain 89.

If you would like to see them with a view to choosing any that may be suitable for the Pitt Rivers Museum5 I shall be pleased to place them at your disposal.

Yours truly, | W. G. Wallace [signature]

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The page is numbered [WP16/2/47] in pencil in the top RH corner.
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Absence of date suggests this may be a draft or copy of a letter sent.

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A group of museums and research centers funded by the estate of British scientist James Smithson (d. 1829). Established in 1846, they house an eclectic range of 138 million items.
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A museum dedicated to human history, art and culture established in Bloomsbury, London in 1753 and largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane.
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A museum displaying the archaeological and anthropological collections of the University of Oxford, founded in 1884 by Lt-General Augustus Pitt Rivers, who donated his collection to the University.

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Status: Draft transcription [Author’s draft (WCP6070.7020)]

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

Please cite as “WCP6070,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6070