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WCP142

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
7 December 1908
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/144
Summary:

Order of Merit and Grand Cross Order of the Bath, knighthood, precedence and Whittaker's (Almanack).

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WCP143

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
23 December 1908
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/145
Summary:

Books sent to his son William Wallace for Christmas, Scottish artist Strang's visit, portrait in chalks [of ARW] for Windsor; William's sister Violet going to Hurst; lecture sent to London to be typed.

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WCP1563

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
E. Macdonald
Date:
26 December 1908
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP2/6/3/2/5
Summary:

Thanks Macdonald for her Christmas present; description of his investiture with Order of Merit at home by the King's equerry Colonel Legge; intends to wear it once in public at a lecture he is to give at the Royal Institution "on the world of life" on 22 Jan 1909, offers tickets for herself and a friend.

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WCP1672

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Frederick ("Fred") Birch
Date:
30 December 1908
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP2/6/3/8(140)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 223-224]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP1813

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Eeles Dresser
Date:
3 December 1908
Source of text:
John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester: English Manuscript 1404
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP1833

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
9 December 1908
Source of text:
Royal Society, The: MC.08480
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP195

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).

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WCP196

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
13 December 1908
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/199
Summary:

Arrival of a cheque for £50 from the Royal Society, a bonus paid to Copley medallists; visit by artist Mr Strang deferred; visit by Mr Rann of Pall Mall Magazine with photographer, interview and display of medals; visit by Lady Wimborne re "Women's Liberal Club", spoke to her about Socialism; letter from H C Legge, secretary to the Order of Merit, re delivery of insignia.

Contributor:
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WCP197

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
17 December 1908
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/200
  • 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:

Investiture and receipt of Order of Merit medal from Colonel Legge, describing documents and insignia in detail; conversation with Colonel Legge about his attendance on and drives around the English countryside with the German Emperor, the Emperor's love of England.

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WCP3509

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
6 December 1908
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 55221 f. 116
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP3511

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
19 December 1908
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 55221 f. 118
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP3512

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
23 December 1908
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 55221 ff. 119
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP3572

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:
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WCP3603

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Frank Skinner Thompson
Date:
3 December 1908
Source of text:
  • Gail Guthrie (private collection)
  • Gail Guthrie (private collection)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP4440

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:
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WCP4559

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
20 December 1908
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 211
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 87-88]
Summary:

Problems with reading his lecture - Crookes has offered to read the main body of it. Will stay with H. G. Dresser. Criticises F. A. Bather.

Contributor:
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WCP4811

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
W. J. Farmer
Date:
3 December 1908
Source of text:
  • American Philosophical Society: Alfred Russel Wallace Collection MSS.B.W15a
  • Farmer, W. J. (1949). Bees and evolution. The British Bee Journal: 77(3515): 522
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 101-102]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP5389

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Hall, Leonard & Hall, Pattie & Hall, Nellie & Hall, Spencer & Hall, Nora
Date:
[December?] [1908]
Source of text:
Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP5470

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:
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WCP6299

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Matthew Bartendale Slater
Date:
8 December 1908
Source of text:
McGill, H. M. (1960). The Case of the Missing Journal. The Manchester Review : 1960-61 : 124-128 [p. 127]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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