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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
2 December 1908
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/198
  • 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. 128]
Summary:

Request from Mrs Swinton for full names of William and his sister Violet, Aneurin Williams, barrister and a director of the "Garden City Company" her husband's executor, past correspondence about Mr Swinton's will on behalf of the Land Nationalisation Society, shares for William and Violet; arrival of the (Royal Society) Copley medals, one gold and one silver; letter from Lord Chancellor excusing ARW from personal attendance at the Investiture (of the Order of Merit); his own and William's health; progress of writing lecture (on Darwinism, for the Royal Institution).

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Scott Keltie
Date:
2 December 1908
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB7 1881-1910 A. R. WALLACE
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
2 December 1908
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 93
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 93
Summary:

About medals. Has received Copley medal in the post (expected to have Copley's head on it). It is very nice to have medals in gold and silver. Mimicry pictures for R.I. lectures. "To think of going to America delivering lectures and back in a month!".

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[William] [Strang]
Date:
2 December 1908
Source of text:
Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution: MSS 001526 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project