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Wallace builds a garden pond
Extract
Letter from Wallace to his son William describing work done on the garden pond and giving advice on the best drawing instruments to buy, dated November 1891. (extract)
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Wallace Letters Online
View high resolution scans and transcripts of Alfred Russel Wallace's correspondence, including all surviving letters between him and Charles Darwin.