| Description | Envelope containing a letter and ms notes. The envelope is annotated [by Alfred Russel Wallace] in ink 'letter with no place, or date, or name one description of wonderful caverns - Old Hatch mentioned' and in pencil beneath 'old' deleted: 'Phoebe Hatch aet 15!'. Contents:
1: letter on mourning paper, signed 'X', from Derwent Villa, Sydenham Road North, [Cheltenham] May, (no day or year date), to Mrs Sims (Alfred Russel Wallace's sister Fanny), thanking her for her kind letter and likenesses of Alfred Russel Wallace and aunt [Wilson]; describing the writer's step-daughter Mrs York and her children and reminiscing about childhood times at Dulwich. Annotated in pencil [by Alfred Russel Wallace] '[1872-74]'
2: One folio folded headed 'My description continued', apparently part of a letter, in blue ink in an unknown hand, describing [limestone] caves with underground lakes visited by the writer and old Mr Hatch; mentioning Hatch's daughter Phoebe, Mr Sims and Mrs Cole.
3: Ms in black ink in an unknown hand, one folded folio headed 'Robert Montgomery' on the right and '1842' on the other, with notes on the life and poetry of Robert Montgomery and, under '1842', the role of major poets including Wordsworth in procuring funding to build a church [near Cardiff Castle].
Name: Sims, Frances, née Wallace, died 1893
Wilson, Mrs, née Greenell, fl 1840?
Sims, Thomas, fl 1850
Hatch, Phoebe, fl [1872]
Montgomery, Robert, 1807-1855
Place: Cardiff Wales Cheltenham Gloucestershire England |