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Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 21 Feb 1892, re the conjunction of Venus and Jupiter (diagram enclosed -see WP1/2/84); death of (Henry Walter) Bates; chess games with Miss West, Mr Pocock and Mr Linton; visit by the Sharpes and Mrs Besant; Mrs Besant's lectures; Miss Webb; plays Hamlet and Henry VIII. Place: Dorset England Notes: Date originally read as 1897, but Bates died in 1892 and date on enclosed sketch is clearly 1892. Annotated in pencil in an unknown hand (or possibly A. R. Wallace's) "Mrs Besant". Enclosure: sketch diagram of relative positions of Earth, Venus and Jupiter in Feb 1892. Separately entered as record WP1/2/84 |
