| Description | Letter from 'that wretched T.O.', with thanks for letters and three copies of 'The New Age', other copies failed to arrive, presumed stolen, hopes promised copy of Sir Arthur Cotton's tract on agriculture will arrive safely, no news of Velox photographic paper ordered via Mr May; belated news of King's death through local Germans; Paulhan's flight from London to Manchester, speculation on when public air travel will be possible and its effects; hopes for the arrival of Socialism; detailed descriptions of the appearance and behaviour of birds and animals visiting the garden including parroquets, orioles, toucans and callistes, many eating oranges, wrens attacking a snake, woodpeckers apparently eating pawpaws or insects within them; opossums, bats taking food from the table and cooking stove, fruit scarce in forest; night temperatures below freezing, large variation of day and night temperature; cannot consider joining Captain Boynton at the Orinoco because considering move to British Guiana or Victoria (Brazil); has practiced dentistry on Mary [wife] and filled several cavities; good view of Halley's comet.
Postscript on a smaller sheet of paper asking cost of land in Hampshire, Devonshire and Somerset and whether peaches can be grown there; where filberts will grow successfully (in Britain); Windermere; asks for news of any land available on the Warwickshire Avon.
Green paper envelope with stamp removed, postmarked Theophilo-Ottoni 17 Jul 1910, addressed to Alfred Russel Wallace at Broadstone; annotated in [Alfred Russel Wallace's or William Greenell Wallace's hand] 'Dated - July, 1910'.
Birch, Frederick R, fl 1897-1910
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Cotton, Sir Arthur, knight
Albert Edward Wettin, Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Great Steward of Scotland, 1841-1910; Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Ireland 1901-1910.
Paulhan, Louis, fl 1910
Halley, Edmund 1656-1742
New Age, The, 1907-1922
Place: Barbados Caribbean Islands Brazil British Guiana Devonshire England Hampshire Warwickshire
Notes: 3 folios consisting of 2 folios 16.5 cm x 10.5 cm and a note on a small sheet of paper 9cm X 7 cm |