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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.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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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.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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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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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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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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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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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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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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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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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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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.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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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:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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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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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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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:

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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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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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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.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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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:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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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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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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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.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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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.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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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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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
2 December 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/79
Summary:

Request from her brother William for aid to an unemployed schoolmaster; gardening; orchids; MS demanded by Violet sent; articles by Nansen sent.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
[April] [1896]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/99
Summary:

Trains and route to Parkstone from Waterloo; her brother William and the Clarion Cycling Club at Bakewell.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Henry Simpson Lunn
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 December 1896
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 f. 151
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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