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Birch Frederick R, Wallace Alfred Russel, Huber ?, Jordan Heinrich Ernst Karl, Moss A M, May ?, Thoreau Henry David, New Age The |
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Letter from Fred Birch to A. R. Wallace from Theophilo Ottoni, Brazil, 14 Feb 1910 re A. R. Wallace's letter to Dr Huber; lack of information on insect collecting opportunities in Para, suspects trade rivalry; plans to leave Brazil after two and a half years there, details of repeated theft and loss of packages in the mails and his valuable hand-made collecting case sent from Tring by Dr Jordan at Bahia customs house; misunderstanding with Mr May over house rent and purchase of collections; surprise at news of A M Moss collecting in the Andes; butterflies sent to Tring made £53.12.00 but cannot trust beetle collection to a carrier, is making boxes for them; plans to go to British Guiana and collect on the Demerara or Berbice rivers, cannot afford to go to the Andes because of responsibility for Mary and Elsie (wife and child?); disagrees with A. R. Wallace's views on labour and intellect, quotes Thoreau and from an A. R. Wallace letter; necessity of broad study and experience of life, nobility of agricultural labour; admires some articles in the N.A.("New Age"). Green paper envelope (stamp torn off) addressed to A. R. Wallace at Broadstone, postmarked on the front Theophilo Ottoni 20 Feb 1910 and on the back Ambula Rio de Janeiro 2? 21? 1910, Diamantina (date illegible) and Wimborne 20 Mar (1910); annotated on the front in A. R. Wallace's hand "Recd. Mar 20th 1910 | Rio or B. Guiana! | Written Feby 1910". Notes: The envelope also contained a letter written on May 5 - see WP1/6/4 |
