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Sepia portrait photograph c.1862 with plain pale background, of a young dark-skinned man with short dark wavy hair, wearing a dark jacket and waistcoat and white collar with white bow-tie. He is facing the camera, looking down and to the viewer's left. Annotated on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand "Ali, my Malay Boy" and in pencil possibly in another hand ""-3 1/2 -" and "64". An enlarged reproduction of this photograph faces p. 383 in A. R. Wallace's "My Life" (1905) vol. 1 A. R. Wallace states there that the photograph was taken in Singapore by "a friend". Dated from context. Place: Singapore Malaya Notes: TRANSFERRED TO PAPERS RE 'MY LIFE'; WP6/8 |
