| Description | Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to George Silk, with part-letter to the [Hertford Literary Society] on the back, from Singapore, 15 Oct [1854], re sailing for Sarawak next day; arranging and cataloguing collection of 6,000 specimens - birds, insects and shells; impossibility of collecting plants for William Hooker; pleasure at quotation by Latham; any news of Sebastopol; wanting copies of 'Punch'; expedition to Mount Ophir.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Silk, George C, fl 1892
Hooker, Sir William Jackson, knight, 1785-1865
Spruce, Richard, 1817-1893
Brooke, Sir James, knight, 1803-1868
Johnson, John Brooke, 1823-1868
Latham, Robert Gordon, 1812-1888
Place: Mount Ophir Malaya Sarawak Singapore Malaya
Notes: Letter no in contents list: 31. No year date. Annotated in pencil '1854'. Some of the letter [three folios] is apparently missing. The text addressed to George Silk, which is on one side of a folio. with valediction and signature, states 'These four sheets are for the Lit. Soc. ... If too long this letter may be cut in two, at the 2nd page of sheet 2 where I have made a cross.' The text on the back, which is initialled 'Alfred Russel Wallace' and is about Mount Ophir, seems to be the last page of a longer narrative. |