WCP6072

Postcard (WCP6072.7022)

[1]1

Pitt Rivers Museum.

11 Dec[ember]. 1947.

Dear Mr. Wallace,

The Curator2 has asked me to thank you for the U[nited]. S[tates]. Geological Survey, Atlas3 which arrived this morning. It arrived in very good condition owing to your excellent packing, and we have never seen so much care taken over sending a book with its metal protection for the corners etc[etera].

Thanking you once more,

Yours truly, | R C Gurden [signature]

R. C. Gurden

(Secretary)

[2]4

W. G. Wallace, Esq[uire].,

61 East Avenue,

BOURNEMOUTH.

1

The letter is typewritten on the message side of a postcard and signed in ink. The page is numbered [WP16/2/49] in pencil in the top LH corner.

2.

2
Penniman, Thomas Kenneth (1895-1977) American-born naturalised British anthropologist. He was Director (or Curator as it was then known) of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford 1939-1963.
3

Dutton, C. E. (1882) Tertiary history of the Grand Cañon district with atlas. United States Geological Survey, Washington, Government Printing Office (see WCP6073).

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4
Recipient’s name and address typewritten on the address side of the postcard, which bears the postmark "OXFORD 8-PM 11 DEC 1947"

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Postcard (WCP6072.7022)]

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Revision history

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

Please cite as “WCP6072,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 30 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6072