ALS “James Edward Fitzgerald” as Assistant Secretary of the British Museum to William Gourlie

by James Edward Fitzgerald

$175 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

1 page. 1 vols. 4to. Folds, some light discoloration and remains of stubs on verso, else excellent. From the collection of Sir Melville MacNaghten, Assistant Commissioner of the C.I.D., Scotland Yard and his daughter. Item #27402 Fitzgerald acknowledges the receipt of “your obliging present of two specimens of Melania from the Falls of Essequibo” Kaieteur Falls in Guyana to the National Collections. Gourlie was a noted botanist and

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