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Postcard from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Grimsel Hospice, Thursday evening, postmarked 12 Jul 1895, re walk (with William Mitten) over Grimsel Pass, collecting Soldanellas and a Primula, plants boxed and sent off; plans to walk to Handeck to botanise and see a fine waterfall. Place: Switzerland Notes: Small piece torn out on right but text intact. OLD REF WP1/19/6/3 and later WP1/21/7. This letter was previously filed in a paper folder labelled in WGW's? hand ""Examd Not wanted" almost certainly selected for J. Marchant when writing A. R. Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences" (London 1916). |