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WCP6235

Letter (WCP6235.7218)

[1]1

THE FERNS,

WITCOMBE,

GLOUCESTER.

I. XI. [19]152

Private

My dear Sir3,

In returning Mr Wallace’s letters to you I am sorry to find that I enclosed by inadvertence a letter on a different subject to Sir David Prain4. I should be greatly obliged if you would do me the favour of returning it to me.

I now enclose the letter I intended you to receive[.]

Yours very faithfully | W. T. Thiselton-Dyer5 [signature]

1
The page is numbered [WP16/1/142] in pencil in the top RH corner.
2
Year deduced from birth and death dates of author.
3
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
4
Prain, David (1857-1944) Scottish physician and botanist, appointed Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1905, in succession to William Thiselton-Dyer (see Endnote 5).
5
Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner (1843-1928) leading British botanist and Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 1885-1905.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP6235.7218)]

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Revision history

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

Please cite as “WCP6235,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6235