| Description | Note on Old Orchard Broadstone headed paper, undated, in Alfred Russel Wallace's? hand, quoting from J W Cross, 'George Eliot's Life' Vol 3, p. 164, mentioning her pleasure in reading, in 1872, Alfred Russel Wallace's 'Eastern Archipelago' (sic).
Name: Eliot, George 1819-1880, British novelist. Pseudonym for Mary Ann Cross née Evans, also Marian Evans
Cross, John W, born c 1839, husband of Marian Evans (George Eliot)
Place: Malaysia
Notes: This was inside a letter to Fanny Wallace/Sims of 1893 when listed but can't have been an original enclosure as house at Broadstone was not built until c 1902. Last date based on the possibility that Alfred Russel Wallace intended to use the extract in his autobiography, published that year. |