WCP641

Letter (WCP641.813)

[1]

Waldron Edge, Duppas Hill,

Croydon.

Octr. 11th. 1878

My dear Carruthers

I am writing an article on "Epping Forest"1 & want some information on its Botany. Can you refer me to any accounts of it or list of its plants, especially trees & bog-plants. Or can you refer me to any local botanist or any one who has worked at the Essex Flora.

I shall be glad of a few lines of testimonial from you at your convenience. Make [2] it short & almost wholly referring to my having had practical experience of planting, & made a special study of the subject, as I hear that being "scientific" is my greatest danger with the Committee!

Believe me | Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

P.S. Asa Gray2 has just sent me his delightful lecture on the Temperate Forests which I am going to use largely in my paper.

A.R.W. [signature]

1
Epping Forest is a 2,400 hectares (5,900 acres) area of ancient woodland to the north-east of London, UK.
2
Gray, Asa (1810-1888). American botanist. Fisher Professor of natural history, Harvard University, 1842-1888.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP641.813)]

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Transcribed by Lang, Ben [2012-02-16] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15]

Please cite as “WCP641,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP641