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WCP6390

Letter (WCP6390.7387)

[1]1

14 CRABTON CLOSE

BOSCOMBE

HANTS2

Jan[uary]: 25, 1916

Dear Mr. Wallace3,

It is announced by the Dorset Field Club4 that my address on Australian plants is fixed for Tuesday, February 8th. at 12.45.

I shall hope you will be good enough to arrange for me to have any plants of interest from Old Orchard5 to exhibit on that occasion.

Practically any species of Eucalyptus6, Acacia7, Grevillea8, Banksia9, Hakea10

[2] and others of Australian origin will be gladly welcomed. I am sure the members of the Society will be greatly interested to see some of the treasures from your father’s garden and they will highly appreciate your kindness.

According to my present plan I am likely to go to Dorchester on Monday afternoon the February 7th, in order to have time to arrange my specimens before the address, [3] by the 3.10 train from the central Station. I wonder whether you could leave the specimens either at Poole Station or the Central Station in the Cloak Room before my train arrives with instructions to hand them over to me when passing.

Between now and then perhaps you could look in to tea on Sunday afternoon when we could talk over the arrangements most convenient to yourself.

Sincerely yours | D. Morris11 [signature]

1
The page is numbered [WP16/1/46] in pencil in the top RH corner.
2
Hampshire.
3
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
4
The Dorset Field Club was organized by Henry Joseph Moule (1825-1904), the first curator of Dorset County Museum, Dorchester (1883).
5
ARW built "Old Orchard", in Broadstone, Dorset and lived there from December 1902 until his death in 1913.
6
A diverse genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia.
7
A wide-ranging genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae, subfamily Mimosoideae, which occurs in a variety of tropical and subtropical habitats.
8
A diverse genus of evergreen flowering shrubs and trees in the family Proteaceae, subfamily Grevilleoideae, native to rainforest and more open habitats in Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Indonesia and Sulawesi.
9
A genus flowering shrubs and trees in the family Proteaceae, subfamily Grevilleoideae. All but one of the living species are endemic to Australia.
10
A genus of shrubs and small trees in the family Proteaceae, subfamily subfamily Grevilleoideae, native to Australia, with the highest species diversity in the south-west of Western Australia.
11
Morris, Daniel (1844-1933) British administrator, horticulturist and botanist, who worked mainly in the Caribbean region. At the time of writing he had retired as Scientific Advisor in Tropical Agriculture to the Colonial Office (1908-1913).

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

Envelope (WCP6390.7388)

Envelope addressed to "W. G. Wallace. Esq., The Haven, Sea Road, Boscombe", with stamp, postmarked "BOSCOMBE B. O. BOURNEMOUTH | 9.45.AM | 26 JA | 16". Pencil notes written on front and back of envelope in the hand of W. G. Wallace; on front: "Auto | Sir D. Moriss"; on back: "? Sat. Jan 30th Feb 5th | Sunday 6th | have letter C.D". [Envelope (WCP6390.7388)]

Please cite as “WCP6390,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6390