WCP789

Letter (WCP789.961)

[1]

5, Westbourne Grove Terrace, w.

Septr 23rd / [18]631

Dear Bates

Allow me to congratulate you on the first rate article2 on your Book3 in the "Times4" this morning. It will I sh[oul]d think finish off your 1st. Ed[ition]. 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 Heteromera6.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

H[enry]. W[alter]. Bates Esq

1
"/ 63" is written in pencil. Possibly a later annotation.
2
Anon. 1863 [September 24]. The naturalist on the Amazons. The Times (London). [p. 8]
3
Bates, H. W. 1863. The Naturalist on the River Amazons. 2 vols. London: John Murray.
4
The Times (London). A British daily newspaper. Founded by John Walter in 1785 as The Daily Universal Register changed to The Times January 1, 1788.
5
Bakewell, Robert (1810-1867). British entomologist specialising in insects of Australia.
6
Types of beetles (Coleoptera).

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

Please cite as “WCP789,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP789