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Letter from A. R. Wallace to his son William, from Parkstone, Dorset, 5 Mar 1893 re sending £20 for William's birthday; family health; arrival of a circular from college (Finsbury Technical College?); Violet going to Liverpool to interview for a teaching position in a girl's school, salary offered, advantages of living in Liverpool; A. R. Wallace's purchase of Chambers' Encyclopaedia; new stamp album; A. R. Wallace's article on "Inaccessible Valleys" in the "Nineteenth Century", re-reading "Lorna Doone"; complete works of Dickens for Ma's (William's mother Annie Wallace) birthday and Scott's novels for Violet; Ponton's shilling pin-hole camera. Place: Dorset England Charlton West Sussex Notes: Numbered in pencil in Mrs Richard Wallace's hand: 19 |
