WCP7216

Letter (WCP7216.8396)

[1]1

Parkstone, Dorset

Octr. 13th. 1894

Dear Mr Backhouse

I did not know that you were much interested personally, in the herbaceous plants which was the reason I wrote to Mr. Potter.2 If you think there is sufficient probability of succeeding with the Pedicularis Scept. Car.3 to make it worth while to try more of it I will gladly send you the rest of the seed I have. I have as yet only sent a little to two other friends. Some I have sown is I think just germinating.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

James Backhouse Esq.

It is a plant I have been longing to get seed of for many years.4

1
Annotated in top left corner ink, possibly in ARW's hand (but see note 4) "Ack[nowledge]d".
2
Letter not found. Possibly to Potter, Michael Cresse (1858-1948) British botanist.
3
. Pedicularis sceptum-carolinum, a tall flowering plant in the family Scrophulariacea. Common name Moor King Lousewort.
4
'"It is a plant ... for many years" is written from bottom to top of the left margin at right angles to the main text, possibly in another hand. The page is torn along the left margin and ARW's reply may have been written on an otherwise blank page of Backhouse's [?] letter.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP7216.8396)]

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Transcribed by Lucas, Paula [2021-04-07]

Please cite as “WCP7216,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP7216