WCP6340

Transcription (WCP6340.7334)

[1]1

Corfe View,

[Parkstone,

Dorset]

May 29th 1900

My dear Olive2,

I should be so pleased if you could come & spend a week with us. Could you come on Saturday next?

We shall feel so lonely without Will3, that it would be very kind of you if you could manage it. You need not write if you are tired as Will could bring a message.

Please remind your mother that she has promised to come to breakfast tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock & we hope your father4 may feel able to accompany her also. The more the merrier.

Your affectionate friend | A. Wallace5.

1
This is a typewritten transcript. The page number WP1/8/229/4 in pencil in the top LH corner has been cut in the scanned copy and is only partially visible. WP1/8/229/5 written in the bottom LH corner appears to refer to the next transcript in sequence (see WCP6341).
2
Comerford-Casey, Olive Bourcicault (1875-?) Friend and neighbour of ARW and the author in Parkstone, Dorset.
3
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of the author and ARW.
4
Comerford-Casey (née Bertram) Ellen Georgina Alvina, (no dates found) daughter of Robert Bertram, Taylorian Professor of German in the University of Oxford.
5
Wallace, Annie (née Mitten) (1846-1914), ARW’s wife.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Transcription (WCP6340.7334)]

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Revision history

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

Please cite as “WCP6340,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6340