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WYKEHAM HOUSE.
OXFORD POST & TELEGR[APH].
8 May 1936.
Dear Mr Wallace2,
Thank you very much for your letter. As I was going to London yesterday I took all the 8 notebooks to the Linn[ean]. Soc[iet]y3. F.[?] I am sure they will value them as among their greatest treasures. Many of them have the pages with one oblique pencil line through the writing showing no doubt that it had been read and made use of in one of your father’s books. [2] I am sure that he studied all of them that were written on his travels. O The others were notes taken in England in preparation for the travels. I asked them about the hat[?] & shall know later on what they think.
I am very glad that Sherborne4 is doing so well for your boy. I have associations with it in addition to those created by the name of the Head! 5 The man who made it a great School was D[octo]r. Harper6 who, on retiring, about 1877 or 1878 [3]7 became Principal of my own College, Jesus College, here. The School went down under his successor8 & it troubled him very much. However, Mr Nowell Smith9 who now lives in Oxford restored it splendidly.
I am glad to hear that Sir James Marchant10 is well. I have not seen him for a very long time. Please give your sister11 my kindest remembrances when you see [1 word illeg. struck through] or write to her.
With kind regards, | Yours very sincerely, | E. B. Poulton12 [signature]
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W. G. Wallace Esq[ui]re
16 Bryanstone Road.
Bournemouth.
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Envelope addressed to "W. G. Wallace Esqre, 16 Bryanstone Road, Bournemouth", with stamp, postmarked "OXFORD | 9 45PM | 8 MAY | 1936". [Envelope (WCP6222.7201)]
Please cite as “WCP6222,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6222