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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Mitten
Date:
15 July 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/39
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Mitten
Date:
31 July 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/40
Summary:

From ARW to his father-in-law instructing he forward the enclosed information to Annie his wife about his movements and intentions regarding his returning home from his North American tour. ARW also describes his trip out the previous day to a primeval forest and the plant species he encountered.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
31 July 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/41
Summary:

From ARW to his wife describing his week spent in the Rocky Mountains and celebrating the plant variety there. He remarks that the air was too dry for ferns. ARW states that Colorado Springs is the only place in America that it would be pleasant to live. He advises Annie that he will be leaving for home at once via Kingston and Quebec and sailing to Liverpool or Glasgow.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
3 August 1887
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/42(1)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/42(2)
Summary:

In this letter ARW informs his wife when he is to leave Canada and when he expects to arrive in Liverpool. ARW suggests that they all go to the Lake District for a holiday where they have never been. Wales and Derbyshire are suggested as alternative destinations. ARW signs off saying he is going to the Thousand Islands.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Mitten
Date:
21 May 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/43
Summary:

Urges Mitten to join him in June or July at Manitou Springs in the Rocky Mountains, has met a lady botanist who says plants magnificent; detailed instructions on route from Quebec or Montreal, advice on luggage, clothing, plant boxes and sphagnum, travel by steamer and train, sleeping car accommodation and cost versus hotels; will write to wife Annie from San Francisco.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Citizens of Stockton
Date:
24 May 1887
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1887). [Reply from Alfred R. Wallace to the citizens of Stockton, California]. The Mail (Stockton) : 15 (95): 2
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
8 February 1887
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1887). [Letter from Alfred R. Wallace on American land taxes]. Report of the Land Nationalisation Society : 8 June 1887 : 7
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
3 December 1887
Source of text:
Darwin, F. (1892). In: Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters . London: John Murray. [pp. 189-190]
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Francis Snyder
Date:
4 March 1887
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1893). [Letter from Alfred R. Wallace to J. F. Snyder on "the Ohio llama"]. The Archaeologist (Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society) : 1 (12): 235-241 [p. 240]
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Thomas Gulick
Date:
24 December 1887
Source of text:
Gulick, A. (1932). In: Evolutionist and Missionary, John Thomas Gulick: Portrayed Through Documents and Discussions . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [p. 403]
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Kinsley Twining
Date:
27 January 1887
Source of text:
Princeton University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections: C0818 (Editorial Correspondence of the Independent), Box 1, Folder 8. Manuscripts Division. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Princeton University Library
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Kinsley Twining
Date:
4 March 1887
Source of text:
Princeton University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections: C0818 (Editorial Correspondence of the Independent), Box 1, Folder 8. Manuscripts Division. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Princeton University Library
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Othniel Charles Marsh
Date:
4 January 1887
Source of text:
Yale University Library, Manuscript and Archives: Othniel Charles Marsh Papers, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, series I, general correspondence, f. 17711-17712
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Isabella Beecher Hooker
Date:
[1887]
Source of text:
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center: Joseph K. Hooker Collection
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Isabella Beecher Hooker
Date:
[1887]
Source of text:
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center: Joseph K. Hooker Collection
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Hubbard Scudder
Date:
1 February 1887
Source of text:
Museum of Science, Boston: Scudder Archive
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Max Weber
Date:
7 December 1887
Source of text:
University of Amsterdam, Special Collections: AB: ZMA 773
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Henry Edwards
Date:
16 January 1887
Source of text:
West Virginia State Archives: William Henry Edwards Collection (MS 79-2), Correspondence 23, 309
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Henry Edwards
Date:
4 April 1887
Source of text:
West Virginia State Archives: William Henry Edwards Collection (MS 79-2), Correspondence 23, 310
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Henry Edwards
Date:
6 April 1887
Source of text:
West Virginia State Archives: William Henry Edwards Collection (MS 79-2), Correspondence 23, 311
Summary:

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