WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Boynton at the Orinoco because considering move to British
Guiana or Victoria (Brazil); has practiced dentistry on Mary
(wife?) and filled several cavities; good view of Halley's comet.
Postscript on a smaller sheet of paper asking cost of land in
Hampshire, Devonshire and Somerset and whether peaches can be
grown there; where filberts will grow successfully (in Britain);
Windermere; asks for news of any land available on the
Warwickshire Avon.
Green paper envelope with stamp removed, postmarked
Theophilo-Ottoni 17 Jul 1910, addressed to Alfred Russel Wallace
at Broadstone; annotated in Alfred Russel Wallace's? or WGW's?
hand ''Dated - July, 1910''.
Birch, Frederick R, fl 1897-1910
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Cotton, Sir Arthur, knight
Albert Edward Wettin, Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay,
Earl of Carrick, Baron Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Great Steward
of Scotland, 1841-1910; Edward VII, King of Great Britain and
Ireland 1901-1910.
Paulhan, Louis, fl 1910
Boynton, ?, fl 1910
Halley, Edmund 1656-1742
New Age, The, 1907-1922
Place: Barbados Caribbean Islands Brazil British Guiana
Devonshire England Hampshire Warwickshire
Notes: 3 folios consisting of 2 folios 16.5cm x 10.5cm and a note
on a small sheet of paper 9cm x 7cm
WP1/6/6 Letters from Fred Birch
Postcard from Fred Birch to Alfred Russel Wallace from
Theophilo Ottoni, Brazil, 19 Jul 1910 thanking Alfred Russel
Wallace for the pamphlet (by Sir Arthur Cotton) on intensive
agriculture which has arrived safely along with copies of ''The
New Age'', is delighted with it; gives details of his gardening
methods and previous year's crops of oats and potatoes, potatoes
this year destroyed by ants; adds to description of Calliste birds
given in last letter (see WP1/6/5) and corrects description of
Toucan; reminds Alfred Russel Wallace he wants details of prices,
soil, temperature and rainfall of land in Devonshire.
Name: Birch, Frederick R, fl 1897-1910
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Cotton, Sir Arthur Thomas, knight,1903-1899
New Age, The, 1907-1922
Place: Brazil Devonshire
WP1/6/7 Letters from Fred Birch
Letter from Fred Birch to Alfred Russel Wallace from the Brazil
highlands, Brazil, 15 Dec 1910 re delay in plans to leave for
another part of Brazil as wife Mary expecting a child in March and
no replies (re suitability of the area) from correspondents in
Espirito Santo, Victoria; has collected many new beetle species
though butterflies scarcer than before, will risk posting a box of
152
19 July 1910
15 Dec 1910
WP1