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WCP689

Letter (WCP689.861)

[1]

TELEGRAMS,

WALLFLOWER, LONDON.

7, CARLOS PLACE

W.

Nov. 16 [1903]1

Dear Mr. Wallace,

I did not answer your last letter about your friend Mr. F. Birch,2 as I have been away from home. I do not know that I have much in the way of papers on insects that would help a collector in British Guiana, but if F. B. is likely to be in Town before [2] he starts & could call at 10 Chandos St. Cavendish Sqr. both Champion3 & I could tell him & show him certain things that might be useful to him. Champion has been an unusually good collector of insects & has had several years experience in the tropics & would I am sure tell him all he could.

If he can come I think he should give me a few days notice, or [3] I might be engaged elsewhere.

I could show him several things that it would be difficult to explain in writing. I will gladly do all I can for him.

Yrs very truly | F. D. Godman3 [signature]

1
Later annotation in pencil by unknown hand.
2
Birch, Frederick ("Fred") (1876-1952). British naturalist and natural history collector. Honorary Secretary of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society.

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Revision history

Transcribed by Bevan, Deniz [2014-02-18] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2024-11-11]

Please cite as “WCP689,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP689