[1] [p. 191]
While these sheets were passing through the press, I received a letter from my brother in California, to whom I had sent a proof of the third picture. He says— "As soon as I opened the letter, I looked at the photograph attentively, and recognised your face, and remarked that the other one was something like Fanny (my sister). I then handed it across the table to Mrs. W., and she exclaimed at once, Why, [2] [p. 192] it's your mother!' We then compared it with a photograph of her we had here, and there could be no doubt of the general resemblance, but it has an appearance of sickness or weariness."
Status: Draft transcription [Published letter (WCP7102.8220)]
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Please cite as “WCP7102,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP7102