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WCP1467

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
21 January 1896
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/267
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 6
Summary:

As CR is attending meetings of the Geological Society, ARW wants to know about gases in glacier water - have they been ascertained and can CR give an authority on the subject. Has been busy with orchids; writing his article on the Aar gorge; has an invitation to lecture in Davos Platz from Dr Lund; makes an enquiry as to whether workers in the Orchid House at Kew exchange duplicates with amateurs.

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WCP1740

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
20 March 1896
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London: GB 0814 BADW
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP268

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
8 February 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/67
Summary:

Bacon sent by Eleanor.

Contributor:
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WCP269

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
3 March 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/68
Summary:

Orchids, some from General Dunn about to flower; visit from Doveton, a poet and psychical researcher from Torquay; Violet's brother William in Hull; Ma's (Annie Wallace) eyes improving; poor health of Miss Marshall Hall; arrival of bacon but no bill; regards to Eleanor; instructions to send her brother William the "Jungle Books".

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WCP270

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
18 March 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/69
Summary:

Galton's work on visualisation; Violet's preference for snails over orchids; her Literary Society; Tolstoy's letter in the previous day's Chronicle; books, recommends J Muir and Besant; visiting poet (Doveton).

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WCP271

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
20 April 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/70
Summary:

Sudden death of Captain Marshall Hall; Violet's proposed walking trip with Ma (Annie Wallace) and Eleanor, letter from Mrs Lowe; Violet's brother William's visit to Bakewell; The Clarionettes, [Clarion Cycling Club] Nunquam, (Robert Blatchford) the Bounder [Edward Ray]; sending weeds and newts to Violet.

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WCP272

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
26 May 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/71
Summary:

Violet's proposed trip to Switzerland, relative merits of chalets, hotels and possible itineraries; flowers in garden; sending Zoo tickets; regards to Eleanor.

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WCP273

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
25 March 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/72
Summary:

Visit to Parkstone to see her brother William; bacon.

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WCP274

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
13 June 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/73
Summary:

Accommodation and itinerary on her proposed trip to Switzerland, with details from a letter by Mr Musson including his address at Villeneuve; [Lumt] the cat has had kittens.

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WCP275

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
23 September 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/74
Summary:

Her proposed trip to Switzerland, enclosing a letter from Miss Lowe (not present) with details of a chalet; arrangements for payment for a new machine [bicycle]; Harris asking for ARW articles, may rewrite some of his lectures; visits by Violet's brother William and Grandpa (William Mitten).

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WCP276

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
18 October 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/75
Summary:

Books and The Clarion; chess; Violet's new bicycle; Mrs Fisher's new book; beetles and snails; explanation of the movement of a free pendulum relative to the movement of the earth with suggestions for classroom experiment; Mrs Julia Dawson of The Clarion.

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WCP277

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
1 November 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/76
Summary:

Lectures on children's education by American visitor Mrs Stetson at Parkstone and Poole, her popularity, relationship to Harriet Beecher Stowe, and poetry; talks with her on poetry, socialism and Weisman's theory; death of "the Bounder" from typhoid fever.

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WCP278

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
27 November 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/77
Summary:

His voluminous correspondence, Percy Burell; lime tree blight; gas leak in house; new patent fire mantel; Professor Poulton and proposed statue of Darwin in Oxford; Violet's salary.

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WCP279

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
14 December 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/78
Summary:

Her brother William; arrangements for Christmas; bicycles; Mrs Stetson; Mr Waddington; visit from the Sharpes and Lady Torrens, Lady Torrens on spiritualism; Violet's K.G. (Kindergarten) magazine.

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WCP280

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
2 December 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/79
Summary:

Request from her brother William for aid to an unemployed schoolmaster; gardening; orchids; MS demanded by Violet sent; articles by Nansen sent.

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WCP300

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
[April] [1896]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/99
Summary:

Trains and route to Parkstone from Waterloo; her brother William and the Clarion Cycling Club at Bakewell.

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WCP3379

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
29 May 1896
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 55221 ff. 28-29
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP3576

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Scott Keltie
Date:
5 February 1896
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB7 1881-1910 A. R. WALLACE
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP3704

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Michael Flürscheim
Date:
1 January 1896
Source of text:
Bancroft Library, University of California: BANC MSS 76/109 z
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP3706

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Michael Flürscheim
Date:
12 July 1896
Source of text:
Bancroft Library, University of California: BANC MSS 76/109 z
Summary:

No summary available.

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