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Letter from A. R. Wallace to his father in law William Mitten, from Salt Lake City, 21 May 1887, urging Mitten to join him in June or July at Manitou Springs in the Rocky Mountains, has met a lady botanist who says plants magnificent; detailed instructions on route from Quebec or Montreal, advice on luggage, clothing, plant boxes and sphagnum, travel by steamer and train, sleeping car accommodation and cost versus hotels; plants seen growing wild in Salina, Kansas included Tradescantia virginica, Yucca angustifola, Penstemon cobaea and fields covered with a blue flower probably Camassia; will write to wife Annie from San Francisco. Place: Utah USA Kansas USA Denver Colorado USA Canada Notes: 2 folios. This letter was among others in a modern (1999) envelope labelled in Richard Wallace's hand "Letters to Annie, WGW etc (&?) From Fred Birch" and was appended to this file in July 2003. |
