| Description | 'The Waste of Beauty Written after reading … Malay Archipelago', undated poem signed J W Gough, Ms in ink on 1 folded folio (3 pp) of lined paper, annotated in ink in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand on the title page 'Ideas and sentiments good - verse but so-so A.R.W.' over 'Not bad on the whole' in pencil [in his or William Greenell Wallace's hand].
Name: Gough, J W
Notes: Alfred Russel Wallace's 'Malay Archipelago' was first published in 1869 but frequently reprinted; the date of the poem could be anywhere between 1869 and Alfred Russel Wallace's year of death, 1913.
Place: Malaysia |