| Description | Letter - 5 sewn folios (20 pp) - thanking Alfred Russel Wallace for past help and reporting on his own life and thoughts over the past year including a camping trip in Llanferris, flora and fauna near River Alyn, geology of local rivers, collecting moths and mosses; cycling in Pennine hills; visit from Harold Sayler; winter clothing and exercise; L S Mosley's Economic Museum in Huddersfield, Mosley's involvement with Naturalist's Journal; camping and collecting insects in Delamere Forest Cheshire, names of some beetles and moths collected; trips along Welsh rivers; reading on ethnology and the tropics in anticipation of going there, lists authors including Humboldt, Bell, H H Higgins, Ernst Haeckel and Huxley, praises Mary Kingsley; praises practical learning and self-sufficiency; desire to learn, frustration of work restricting time available; a friend at Ladysmith, (Boer) war; secretaryship of Lancs and Cheshire entomological Society; photography of natural objects.
Also stamped envelope addressed to Alfred Russel Wallace at Parkstone, postmarked on front Wavertree Liverpool 21 Nov 1899 with an illegible postmark on the back; annotated [in Alfred Russel Wallace's or William Greenell Wallace's hand] 'Fred. Birch Interesting letter - thoughts &c &c.'
Name: Birch, Frederick R, fl 1897-1910
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Sayler, Harold, fl 1899
Mosley, L S, fl 1899
Humboldt, Alexander von, Baron, 1769-1859
Higgins, Henry Hugh, 1814 - 1893
Haeckel, Ernst, 1834-1919
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
Kingsley, Mary Henrietta , 1862-1900
Place: England Liverpool England Parkstone Dorset England Wales
Notes: Second Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902. |