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WCP253

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
14 July 1894
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/52
Summary:

Her proposed tour to Switzerland and Italy with Madame Lund's party, sending £10 towards expenses; arrangement for meeting her brother William and visiting Parkstone; description of ARW's and Ma's (Annie Wallace) ten days in Devon, wildflowers and ferns at Bolt Head, Salcombe and Brent; blue poppies and pink waterlily in flower in garden; two nearby houses including Mr Clement Reid's lodgings destroyed by fire.

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WCP254

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
25 September 1894
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/53
Summary:

The delights of Switzerland; visit by Dr and Mrs Wigglesworth, daughter of H. H. Higgins, from Liverpool, Dr W recently stabbed by a patient at the lunatic asylum, description of incident and surgery on his severed carotid artery; alpine plants collected for ARW by Clement Reid delayed in post and some dead; ARW writing an article on "some Darwinian heresies" for the Fortnightly and about to write another on "The expressiveness of speech"; plans to view Mars with his telescope; William (Violet's brother) back in Newcastle.

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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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WCP2605

From:
Frederic William Henry Myers
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 March 1894
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 f. 292
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP2606

From:
Frederic William Henry Myers
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 April 1894
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 293-294
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP2607

From:
John Page Hopps
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 May 1894
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 295-296
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP2650

From:
Charles Lennox Tredcroft
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 1894?
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 ff. 71-72
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP2693

From:
Percy William Bunting
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 January 1894
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 f. 151
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP2694

From:
Andrew Reid
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 January 1894
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 ff. 152-155
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP2695

From:
[Theodor] [Hertzka]
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 January 1894
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 ff. 156-157
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP2696

From:
Isabella Caroline Somerset (née Somers-Cocks)
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 February 1894
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 ff. 158-159
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP2697

From:
Henry S. Bosanquet
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 February 1894
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 ff. 160-163
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 ff. 160-163
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP2698

From:
J. H. Aubry
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 February 1894
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 ff. 164-165
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP2699

From:
Andrew Reid
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 March 1894
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 ff. 166-169
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP2700

From:
Andrew Reid
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
15 March 1894
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 ff. 170-171
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP2701

From:
Andrew Reid
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 March 1894
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 ff. 172-173
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP2702

From:
Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 July 1894
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 f. 174
Summary:

No summary available.

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