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WCP666

Letter (WCP666.838)

[1]

9, St Mark’s Crescent

N. W.

Novr. 9th / 68

Dear Stainton1

Thanks for your congratulations (if I should be congratulated) and for the extract.

As to Mr Skirving’s2 remark about the blackbird & hairy caterpillars, — he states it as a fact repeatedly observed by himself, and I have long ceased to disbelieve any fact of which I have direct evidence, merely because I might consider it improbable. [2] If you are in town any of the evening’s named on the enclosed card we shall be very glad to see you.

Very truly yours | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

H. T. Stainton Esq.

1
Stainton, Henry Tibbats (1822-1892). British Entomologist. Secretary of the Entomological Society of London 1850-52; Secretary of the Linnean Society 1869-74; Secretary of the Zoological Record Association 1871-86.
2
Skirving, Robert Scot (1821-1900). Farmer. Farmed at Camptown, Haddington, East Lothian, 1851 and 1861. Lived in Edinburgh, 1871, 1881 and 1891. Author of several tracts on the labour question in Scotland. (DCP)

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Revision history

Transcribed by McCombie, Arleen [2012-02-16] Transcription checked by Costa, Leslie [2020-06-09] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2024-11-11]

Please cite as “WCP666,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP666