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Stag beetle, Sepia image on paper captioned "Dorcus Parryi, Thomp.", headed "Specimen of Photo-lithography", with "From Nature, by Thomas Sims, 5. W.G. Terrace Bayswater" written on the bottom margin. Annotated on the back (by A. R. Wallace?) "Thomas Sims, 5 Westbourne Grove Terrace W." Possibly originally an enclosure in a letter to A. R. Wallace: See several letters from A. R. Wallace to Fanny Sims c.1858-59 in family correspondence (WP1/3) Place: London England Notes: Formerly in a brown cardboard box in the form of a book, titled "Letters" on spine, containing miscellaneous apparently unrelated letters and photos |
