WCP6091

Letter (WCP6091.7043)

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KITWELLS,

SHENLEY,

HERT[FORD]S[HIRE].

April 22. 1914.

Dear Sir,

On my return home a day or two ago I found a letter from Mr. Cockerell2 informing me that my offer of £200 for your father’s library had been accepted. I understand that to complete the matter it is necessary for me to deal with the Public Trustee3. Perhaps you will put [2] me into Communication [sic] with him.

With regard to the removal of the books: I should be glad to know whether you wish this done at once. If it should be consistent with your convenience & that of your family I should prefer for the present to leave them where they are.

Believe me | Yours very[?] truly | T. H. Richis [signature]

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The page is numbered [WP16/3/1] in pencil in the top RH corner. The number "[old ref WP3/43]" is written in pencil in the bottom LH corner of the page.

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2
Possibly Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle (1867-1962) English museum curator and collector, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 1908-1937, with whom ARW corresponded between 1901 and 1909, or his brother Douglas Bennett Cockerell, (1870-1945) a bookbinder. A third brother Prof. Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866-1948) zoologist at the University of Colorado was also a correspondent of ARW (see WCP2960).
3

An office established according to national statute, to act as a trustee, usually where a sum is required to be deposited as security by legislation. In this case ARW elected to name the Public Trustee as his executor.

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Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP6091.7043)]

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Revision history

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

Please cite as “WCP6091,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 8 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6091