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Ref NoWP/2/6/5/4
Alt Ref NoWP2/6/5/4
TitleBrown envelope approximately 25cm X 20cm, used as outer wrapping for bundled letters written by Alfred Russel Wallace from USA and Canada as delivered for listing.
DescriptionA wide strip has been torn away from the front, which is divided into four squares in blue pencil, annotated in an unknown hand 'Registered' and addressed to W G Wallace, Esq, Old Orchard, Broadst (Broadstone) Dor (Dorset). Part of the address is missing at the tear. Of three postmarks on the front two are illegible; one is Wimb[orne] [Wimborne] 10 Jul (1916?). Beneath the postmarks is an annotation in pencil [in William Greenell Wallace's hand] : ' Alfred Russel Wallace's U.S.A. letters | Copied Aug/15'.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Place: Wimborne Dorset England
Date[1916]
AccessStatusOpen
Held ByNHM General Library
ExtentEnvelope
LevelItem

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PX473Wallace; Alfred Russel (1823-1913); Biologist1823-1913 [Source: http://www.wku.edu/%7Esmithch/index1.htm]
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