WCP6096

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UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY

CAMBRIDGE

DOWNING STREET

CAMBRIDGE

2nd December 1949

Dear Mr Wallace,

Thank you for your letter. If the five Bird of Paradise² skins are in good order we shall be glad to purchase them for the sum you mention. May we have the skins in Cambridge in order that we can examine them?.

I assume that your father was the great naturalist contempora^ry³ of Charles Darwin⁴ and if so we should be very glad to add material collected by him to our collections.

Yours truly, | F R Parrington [signature]

Director

W. G. Wallace Esq[uire].,

61 East Avenue,

Bournemouth

Dec[ember]. 3^rd Glad they w[oul]d like the skins & value them &c. Asked him to enquire about any one travelling by car B’[ourne]m[out]th to Camb[ridge] in near future. I will do the same.⁵

B[ird]. of P[aradise]. skins despatched by C[arriage]. P[aid]. Jan[uary]. 25 insured for total loss ± 15 = 6^d Charge carriage 2/-^8,6

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Feb[ruary]. 2. Wrote to ask if they had been received.⁸

Feb[ruary]. 4. Acknowledged receipt of £10.⁸

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