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WCP255

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
29 October 1894
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/54
Summary:

Recovery from damage to his eyesight, unable to read or write for previous month; Ma (Annie Wallace) reading papers to him, learning Poe's "Farewell to Earth" by heart to pass the time; visit of Miss Heaton from Natal with a trap-door spider for Violet, can supply a chameleon if wanted; "Clementina" [Clement Reid] has left for Corfe; rearrangement of furniture in study (sketch plan included).

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WCP256

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
5 November 1894
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/55
Summary:

Sending insect specimens, shells, Natal spider and its nest, and a live beetle to Violet for teaching purposes; Miss Heath; books for Violet's exams; plans for her "K.G." [kindergarten], selling "Nutwood" impossible as it brings in £50 a year, income and housing for the family after his death; bad news from California of ARW's brother (John) who has cancer, ARW suspects vaccination the cause; ARW's eyesight.

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WCP257

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
25 November 1894
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/56
  • Wallace, W. G. & Wallace, V. (1916). Part IV. Home Life. 103-138. In: Marchant, J. (Ed.). Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 114]
Summary:

Recovery of his eyesight, one still inflamed, lost opportunity to view Mars with his telescope, accumulation of reading, writing and chess playing; discovery of a doctor (Turner) at Poole, who is a fellow orchid enthusiast; request for any spare plants if Violet should visit (orchid house) at Liverpool; purchase of educational books for her; unsuitability of Parkstone house for children, but Eleanor and her child may visit; sending two annotated numbers of the Vaccination Enquirer, impossibility of trusting doctors or officials on the subject.

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WCP258

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
14 December 1894
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/57
Summary:

Visit by Mrs Maclachlan and small son Hamish; Miss Macdonald expected; kindergarten books; gardening; completion of article on language; Harris leaving the Fortnightly, opinion of new editor; Violet should visit orchid nursery John Rowan & Co at Garston near Liverpool; Ma (Annie Wallace) going to Hurst for her mother's (Mrs Mitten) golden wedding celebrations; considering asking Clement Reid to Christmas dinner.

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WCP3705

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Michael Flürscheim
Date:
12 July 1894
Source of text:
Bancroft Library, University of California: BANC MSS 76/109 z
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP3720

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Mitten
Date:
8 February 1894
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London: MS 140a-9
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP3778

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Lester Frank Ward
Date:
7 June 1894
Source of text:
  • John Hay Library, Brown University: Ms. 90.23, Series I, Subseries E
  • Stern, B. J. (1935). Letters of Alfred Russel Wallace to Lester F. Ward. The Scientific Monthly: 40: 375-379 [p. 379]
Summary:

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WCP3780

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Lester Frank Ward
Date:
12 August 1894
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University: Ms. 90.23, Series I, Subseries E
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP3830

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
6 February 1894
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC English Letters 1857-1900 Vol. 104
Summary:

About the death of Richard Spruce.

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WCP3989

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
18 November 1894
Source of text:
Imperial College Archives, London: MLDA/2213
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP4396

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
9 July 1894
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 49
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 49
Summary:

ARW has been in south Devon for the last 10 days. Mimicry - glad Poulton is taking it up seriously for the museum, suggestions for how to arrange display. Gives reasons for not attending the British Association meeting.

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WCP4397

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
8 September 1894
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 50
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 50
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 60-61]
Summary:

About Poulton's exposure of another American neo-¬Lamarckian in Nature. Criticism of Bateson's book and personal criticism of Bateson and Galton.

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WCP4529

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
22 March 1894
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 180
Summary:

About Meldola's visit on Sunday.

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WCP4530

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
6 April 1894
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 181
Summary:

About recent outings. Criticism of American Neo-Lamarckians.

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WCP4768

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John William Harshberger
Date:
May 1894
Source of text:
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University: Collection MS. 444
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP4783

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Ms La Touche
Date:
7 January 1894
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: Alfred Russel Wallace Collection MSS.B.W15a
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP4968

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Taylor White
Date:
3 January 1894
Source of text:
White, T. (1894). The Kea (Nestor notabilis) , a sheep-eating parrot. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand : 27 : 273-280 [p. 277]
Summary:

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WCP5250

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Norman Douglas
Date:
19 July 1894
Source of text:
Douglas, N. (1922). In: Alone . New York: Robert M. McBride & Co. [pp. 126-127]
Summary:

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WCP5428

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
J. T. Carrington
Date:
8 December 1894
Source of text:
Ross, S. (1962). Scientist: the story of the word. Annals of Science: A Quarterly Review of the History of Science and Technology Since the Renaissance : 18 (2): 65-85 [p. 77]
Summary:

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WCP5478

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Daniel Pidgeon
Date:
9 January 1894
Source of text:
Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution: MSS 001526 A
Summary:

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