WCP6230

Letter (WCP6230.7212)

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ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON,

41, QUEENS GATE,

SOUTH KENSINGTON, S.W.7.

14 July, 1924.

W. G. Wallace2, Esq[uire].,

Doves Hill Cottage,

Ensbury Park,

Bouremouth [sic].

Dear Sir,

I am in receipt of your letter of the 6th inst[ant]. The portrait of your father has been handed to Professor Selwyn Image3with instructions to take the greatest possible care of it, and to return it immediately it is done with. I do not think you need have any anxiety about its safety. I do not know whether you know Professor Image, but he is an extremely careful man. He is of course, the4 Slade Professor of Art at the Oxford University [sic], a Chair which at one time was held by the late John Ruskin5.

Yours very truly | W. G. Sheldon6 [signature]

Treasurer.

Mentioned it to E. B. Poulton7 on July 15th8

The letter is typewritten on the headed notepaper of the Entomological Society of London, the seal of which appears at the top LH side of the page, and is signed in ink. The page is numbered [WP16/1/137] in pencil in the top LH corner.
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
Image, Selwyn (1849-1930) English clergyman, designer of stained glass windows and poet. He relinquished Holy Orders in 1883, became Master of the Art Workers’ Guild in 1900, and was Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University 1910-1916.
The word "the" is written in ink over an indistinguishable word in the typescript.
Ruskin, John (1819-1900) English art critic, draughtsman, watercolourist, prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He became the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford in 1869, where he established the Ruskin School of Drawing.
Sheldon, William George (1859-1943) Treasurer of the Entomological Society of London, founded in 1833 (now the Royal Entomological Society).
Poulton, Edward Bagnall (1856-1943) British evolutionary biologist, friend of ARW and lifelong advocate of natural selection.
Annotation in pencil in the hand of the recipient.

Please cite as “WCP6230,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6230