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Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Stockton, California, 1 Jul 1887 enclosed with a letter to her father William Mitten (see WP1/17/38): re her success in letting the house; visit to Yosemite and Santa Cruz with his brother John to see big trees; swollen and ulcerated lip confining him to the house, plans to visit Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada when well; ferns from Santa Cruz sent to Miss Jekyll; Mr Marshall; problems with posting items from America; A. R. Wallace's San Francisco lecture on spiritualism well attended and further offer from Chicago, Spiritualism pays better than Natural History; sending ferns from Yosemite; description of Sequoia sempervirens seen in the Redwood forests and exotic plants in California; California as a place to live. Place: Stockton California USA Notes: This letter was in the envelope addressed to William Mitten, now with the letter to him at WP1/17/38. PJL |
