| Description | Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to Fanny (Mrs Thomas Sims) in Conduit Street, London, from Singapore, 20 Feb 1856, re departure from Sarawak, leaving Charles behind; admirable character of Sir James Brooke; slow healing of injured foot; good collection of insects in Borneo; Sims' photography business; Fenton's Crimea photographs; justification of Crimean war.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Sims, Frances, née Wallace, died 1893
Sims, Thomas, fl 1850
Allen, Charles, born c. 1838
McDougall, Francis Thomas, 1817-1886
Brooke, Sir James, knight, 1803-1868
Fenton, Roger, 1819-1869
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 1769-1821
Place: Sarawak Singapore Malaya Russia
Notes: Letter no in contents list: 35. The date given in the contents list is Feb 1856. The written date is clearly 1855, but '56!' has been added in pencil next to it, possibly in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand, and from context 1856 must be the correct year. |