WCP6611

Published letter (WCP6611.7676)

[1] [p. 346]

Memorandum from Secretary1 to Mr. Bartlett

Crystal Palace Company2

May 18, 1858.

The Board authorize you to write to Mr. Wallace and say that they will give him £25 per bird for every Bird of Paradise which he delivers up to twelve birds, and £5 a bird for ten more, making twenty-two in all; on the understanding that no Birds of Paradise are to be procured by Mr. Wallace for any other party than this Company. The Board think that the males and females should be in equal numbers.

J. Statham,

For the Secretary.

1
Grove, George (1820-1900). British writer on music, lexicographer and Secretary of the Crystal Palace Company 1852-73.
2
The Crystal Palace Company was founded in 1852 in order to purchase Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace after the Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park, London. The company re-erected the Palace in Penge Place, London, on the top of Sydenham Hill. (Leith, I. 2005. Delamotte's Crystal Palace: A Victorian Pleasure Dome Revealed. Swindon, UK: English Heritage).

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Transcribed by Beros, Matt [2019-04-26]

Please cite as “WCP6611,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6611