WCP621

Telegram (WCP621.621)

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POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS

Office Stamp. BROADSTONE D JU 24 09

Office of Origin and Service Instructions

Cambridge

Handed in at } 1.50pm Received here at } 2.49pm

TO { A. R. Wallace Esquire Old Orchard Broadstone Wimborne Dorset.

The gathering assembled at Cambridge for the Darwin celebrations1 cannot forget your share in the great work which they commemorate and regret your inability to be present to share their [2] {105 continued

congratulations.

Vice-Chancellor2

The Darwin celebration was held at Christ's College, Cambridge on 23 June 1909.

Mason, Arthur James (1851-1928). Vicar of All-Hallows, Barking, London (1884), and as of 1891 was Honorable Canon and Canon Missioner of Truro, Cornwall. Master of Pembroke College (1903–12), and Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University (1908–10).

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Please cite as “WCP621,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP621