WCP6339

Transcription (WCP6339.7333)

[1]1

Corfe View,

Parkstone,

Dorset

March 13th [18]’992

My dear Olive3,

It would be a pity for you to go home & catch measles so won’t you come here after your Swanage4 visit, we should be very pleased to have you & we might go out photographing etc[etera]. & there are pretty things in the garden which perhaps might make nice photos, & gardening to do, so I think we could manage not to be too dull for a young person.

Violet5 may come home next month, it is not settled yet what she is going to do. she [sic] is now at Jena6 & seems to like it very much, she has had a beautiful walk & found Snowflakes, hepaticas, blue anemones, & Daphne & seems to find the country round extremely pretty & interesting.

Hoping to hear you will be able to come.

Believe me | Your affectionate friend | Annie Wallace7.

1
This is a typewritten transcript. The page is numbered WP1/8/229/3 in pencil in the top LH corner. WP1/8/229/4 written in the bottom LH corner appears to refer to the next transcript in sequence (see WCP6340).
2
Year deduced from birth and death dates of author.
3
Comerford-Casey, Olive Bourcicault (1875-?) daughter of the Reverend George Edwards Comerford-Casey (1846-1912), Anglican priest, teacher, botanist and author, friends and neighbours of ARW and the author in Parkstone, Dorset.
4
A coastal town in the south east of Dorset, situated at the eastern end of the Isle of Purbeck.
5
Wallace, Violet Isabel (1869-1945) Daughter and second child of the author and ARW.
6
A university town and the second largest city in Thuringia, Germany.
7
Wallace, Annie (née Mitten) (1846-1914), ARW’s wife.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Transcription (WCP6339.7333)]

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Revision history

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

Please cite as “WCP6339,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6339