WCP7284

Letter (WCP7284.8489)

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WYKEHAM HOUSE,

OXFORD POST & TELEGR.

9: V: 1936.

Dear Mr Savage,1

I was so sorry to hear of your illness when I called at the Linn. Soc.y. last Thursday & trust that you are much better now.

I am sending they enclosed letter concerning the 8 M.S. books2 of A. R. Wallace’s which I left. I think the Society may wish to keep it in o association with this very important & interesting [2] gift. I should like to know what the Council thinks about the hat.3 If no other suggestion is made I think it might be offered to a School or other museum in a place such as Godalming4 where he foun lived at one time.

Hoping to hear that you are much better,

Yours sincerely | E. B. Poulton.4 [signature]

Savage. Spencer (1886-1966). Botanist. Librarian and Assistant Secretary of the Linnean Society of London (1929-1951).
Field Notebooks 2-5 (WCP5799, WCP4766, WCP5800, and WCP4767), and Travel Journal, Parts 1-4 (WCP5795, WCP5796, WCP5797 and WCP5798). WCP4766 and WCP4767 are now in the Natural History Museum, London.

See letter from William Greenell Wallace to Poulton about ARW’s hat.

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Please cite as “WCP7284,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP7284