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RS-MM-001586

From:
Oliver Heaviside
To:
George Frederick Charles Searle
Date:
4 December 1908
Source of text:
MM/21/22, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

JHC554

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
31 December 1908
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.196, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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WCP1382

From:
Henry Charles Legge
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
18 December 1908
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/193
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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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).

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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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.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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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.

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

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

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2919

From:
Robert Speight
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 December 1908
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 307
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3263

From:
Regent Alfred John Bidwell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 December 1908
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46442 ff. 62-63
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3264

From:
Charles Morley
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 December 1908
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46442 f. 64
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3265

From:
David Bruce
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 December 1908
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46442 f. 65
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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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:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3510

From:
James Britten
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 December 1908
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 55221 f. 117
Summary:

No summary available.

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