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Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Hotel du Sauvage (Meiringen, Switzerland), Saturday evening, (Jul 13? 1895) re walk with her father (William Mitten) from Grimsel Hospice; visit to Reichenbach Falls and gorge of the Aar; sending a box of plants collected including a beech fern and some Asplenium septentrionale (fern); plans to go to Wengern and stay a week; Mitten collecting mosses; cost of postage of newspapers from England. Stamped envelope with printed illustration of Hotel du Sauvage and mountains, addressed to Mrs Wallace at Corfe View, Parkstone, Dorset, postmarked on the front Meiringen 14 Jul 1895 and on the back Parkstone 16 Jul (1895). Place: Switzerland Parkstone Dorset England Notes: Od ref WP1/19/6/4and WP1/21/8. 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). |
