| Ref No | WP/1/4/8 |
| Alt Ref No | WP1/4/8 |
| Title | Alfred Russel Wallace to Annie Wallace, from Hotel du Sauvage, Meiringen, Switzerland |
| Description | Letter, dated 'Saturday evening', re walk with her father (William Mitten) from Grimsel Hospice; visit to Reichenbach Falls and gorge of the Aar; sending a box of plants collected including a beech fern and some Asplenium septentrionale (fern); plans to go to Wengern and stay a week; Mitten collecting mosses; cost of postage of newspapers from England.
Also stamped envelope with printed illustration of Hotel du Sauvage and mountains, addressed to Mrs Wallace at Corfe View, Parkstone, Dorset, postmarked on the front Meiringen 14 Jul 1895 and on the back Parkstone 16 Jul (1895)
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, Annie, née Mitten, born c.1846
Mitten, William, 1819-1906
Notes: RECORD MODIFIED 22/7/03, 22/8/0, 15/9/03. OLD REF WP1/19/7/1 and later WP1/21/9. This letter was previously filed in a paper folder labelled [in William Greenell Wallace's hand] 'Excursions &c.' almost certainly selected for J. Marchant when writing Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences (London 1916). |
| Date | [13] July 1895 |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Held By | NHM General Library |
| Extent | Letter |
| Level | Item |
Show related Persons records.
Persons
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| PX473 | Wallace; Alfred Russel (1823-1913); Biologist | 1823-1913 |
| PX2511 | Mitten; William (1819-1906); Bryologist | 1819-1906 |
| PX5166 | Wallace; Annie (1846-1914); Mrs; Wife of Alfred Russel Wallace | 1846-1914 |