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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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WCP2706

From:
Frederic Chapman
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 January 1896?
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 f. 179
Summary:

A forthcoming volume projected to include reprints of ARW's contributions to the Fortnightly Review 1878, 1887. Presumable these are ARW's articles on Epping Forest and on American Museums, and the volume in question could be ARW's Studies Scientific and Social (Macmillan 1900).

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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.

Contributor:
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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.

Contributor:
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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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WCP2750

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
26 February 1896
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 7
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP2751

From:
Conwy Lloyd Morgan
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 April 1896
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 ff. 8-9
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP2752

From:
Jacques Élisée Reclus
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 May 1896
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 10
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP2753

From:
Cecil Carus-Wilson
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 May 1896
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 11
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP2754

From:
Jacques Élisée Reclus
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 May 1896
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 ff. 12-13
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP2755

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
24 May 1896
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 ff. 14-15
  • University College London, Special Collections: Pearson 591, Box 171, folder 2 of 4
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 48-49]
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP2757

From:
Thomas Bainbrigge Walter Campbell Fletcher
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 August 1896
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 ff. 19-20
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP2758

From:
William Fawcett
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 November 1896
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 ff. 21-22
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP2759

From:
Joseph William Blankinship
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 December 1896
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 23
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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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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