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WCP789

Letter (WCP789.961)

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5, Westbourne Grove Terrace, w.

Septr 23rd /631

Dear Bates2

Allow me to congratulate you on the first rate article3 on your Book4 in the "Times" this morning. It will I shd think finish off your 1st. Ed. rapidly. I hope you will find out who wrote it as it is really well done.

I enclose you my list of localities & abbreviations.

Will you be so good as to [2] send me Mr. Bakewell’s5 address, as I wish to write & offer him my Heterometra.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

H. W. Bates Esq

1
Later annotation in pencil "/ 63".
2
Bates, Henry Walter (1825-1892). British naturalist, explorer and close friend of ARW.
3

Anon. [24 September]1863. [Review of] The naturalist on the Amazons. The Times (London). [p. 8] Reprinted in The South Australian Weekly Chronicle (9 January 1864, p. 6)

<https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/92257712>

4
Bates, H. W. 1863. The Naturalist on the River Amazons. 2 vols. London: John Murray.
5
. Bakewell, Robert (1810-1867). British entomologist specialising in insects of Australia.

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Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2018-08-15] Transcription checked by Costa, Leslie [2020-06-09] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2024-12-24]

Please cite as “WCP789,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP789