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WCP1472

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
22 September 1899
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/272
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 51
Summary:

ARW mentions a reviewer in Science noticing ARW's paper on "The Gorge of the Aar". Many Swiss geologists have proved that some Alpine lakes are due to subsidence or deformation, ?see Aeppli's essay on Lake Zurich. ARW asks for references to these proofs.

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WCP1473

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
12 June 1899
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/273
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 45
Summary:

ARW has finished reading ?C. R.'s book and makes some remarks. Regarding getting European seeds for comparison, he enquires if CR has asked Mr Thomas Hanbury of La Mortola garden.

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WCP1474

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
25 November 1899
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 72
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/274
Summary:

ARW thanks CR for the offer of loan of periodicals with articles on erosion. James Geikie has sent a brief reply to Aeppli. Percy Kendall has promised photographs illustrating glacial phenomena.

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WCP1475

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
7 December 1899
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/275
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 73
Summary:

ARW returns the papers C. R. lent him. The paper on Spitzbergen was very instructive, to do with the rapid motion of glaciers and occurrence of ?re-eddies which Bonney denies. The paper on Skye is more puzzling. PS Owing to terrible drought, April-August, none of the Acer seeds came up, nor seeds of Cornus nuttallii.

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WCP162

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
9 February 1899
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/165
Summary:

William's letter from America describing Mack's (sic) machine; misinterpretation of ARW's letter, he does not think William wasting his time in America but should move somewhere more interesting; ARW's health better, asthmatic cough going away; planting in garden; search for details of Wallace Scottish ancestors and Greenell family for autobiography, information from headmaster of Hertford Grammar School; fate of three family portraits, Mr and Mrs Gorringe, the current owners of one of the architect William Greenell refuse permission for it to be photographed, asks William to intercede on his return; Miss Evans wants American stamps; William's finances; Socialism in America.

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WCP163

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
28 February 1899
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/166
Summary:

William's letters from America, death of his horse, snowshoes, severe winter in New York; "Ardmore" still not sold; gathering material for autobiography, does William know whereabouts of steel seal and inscription on family ring, intends to visit a Dorset clergyman who owns a painting of a member of the Wallace family and if possible photograph for the book; bulbs and seeds ordered for garden; apparent loss of books and magazines in post; William's intention to start a business in Bournemouth [with Ma]); ARW writing on white men in the tropics for the New York Independent; writing on Craig's History of Ralahine, Irish cooperative farm 1831-33, to publicise a successful experiment in Socialism.

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WCP1742

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
13 October 1899
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London: GB 0814 BADW
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP1743

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
17 October 1899
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London: GB 0814 BADW
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP1744

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
9 November 1899
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London: GB 0814 BADW
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP1779

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Benjamin Harrison
Date:
26 June 1899
Source of text:
Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery: Benjamin Harrison Archive, Volume 30, p.31
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP28

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
6 January 1899
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/28
Summary:

Discusses William's letter of December 16th [1898] and his plans for winter in America, advice to go south to New Mexico; comments on his news of Mac; Mac's coal-measuring machine; plans for electric tram from Bournemouth to Poole, ARW objects to line through Parkstone; no electric light at Parkstone; damage to garden when drains connected; disadvantages of growing under glass; American papers Coming Nation, American Fabian and The Commonwealth; The Clarion, McGinnis, Robert Blatchford; plans to start work in about a years time on new edition of Wonderful Century and to start autobiography soon; Violet at the Schulz's, enclosing some verses by her and a card from her showing villages near Pössneck (neither present).

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WCP320

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
23 January 1899
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/119
Summary:

Her birthday; drainage work; visit from Miss D'Arcy; Swanley Gardening College and gardening as a profession for women; news of her brother William who has sent the mounted head of a deer; Clarion and Chronicle.

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WCP321

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
14 February 1899
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/120
Summary:

Her plans to return to England, possibility of visiting the Burrell's, German schools, future career; ARW researching family genealogy for his autobiography, Mrs Gorringe's refusal to supply a photograph of his great-great uncle William Greenell; local house sales; the Evanses, Miss Roberts; Mrs Symonds, Miss North.

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WCP322

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
8 March 1899
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/121
  • 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. [pp. 116-117]
Summary:

Possibility of teaching posts for her in Cardiff or Oxted and school visits in Jena (Germany); sending her a copies of the Humanitarian, an Anglo-Russian paper and a German psychical paper; writing an article on an Irish cooperative farm to illustrate socialism and an article for the Fortnightly; Wonderful Century not yet in German; comparison of the Maha Bharata and the Iliad; unidentifiable beetle; English tea.

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WCP323

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
22 May 1899
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/122
Summary:

Planting orchids and blue South African water lilies in garden; geology of East Grinstead and Limpsfield; visit of Mr William Greenell Wallace No 2 and his wife (from America), engineering work in Stockton (California); requests for a description of Miss Clarke and Violet's new school post [in Limpsfield], local German ladies; Mr Stillman; Hudson's book of British Birds; visit to the New Forest with Dora; regards to Mr Hobson.

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WCP324

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
29 June 1899
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/123
Summary:

Her new teaching post, with detailed advice on a formal agreement re salary and conditions to be drawn up by Mr Pease, and advising her to leave if this is not done; sending some frogbit and Villarsin.

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WCP325

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
18 November 1899
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/124
Summary:

Her new accommodation, asking for a plan of the house; "the pedigree Mrs Wallace" in London with a photo of her mother resembling ARW; search for illustrations for his new book, has photos from the "Challenger" (expedition), Anthropology Institute, [Royal] Geographical Society, Admiral Maclear, and his own Yosemite Valley photos, intends to get new photos of Birds of Paradise, negotiating for woodcuts from various books; has a letter in The Clarion on the Boers; Chronicle and Daily Mail on Johannesburg mining millionaires.

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WCP3350

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Tallack
Date:
2 April 1899
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 38835 ff. 61-62
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 38835 ff. 61-62
  • Tallack, W. (1905). In: Howard Letters and Memories. London: Methuen & Co. [pp. 62-63]
Summary:

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WCP3382

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
22 October 1899
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 55221 ff. 34-35
Summary:

Studies scientific and social collection of essays.

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WCP3383

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
26 October 1899
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 55221 ff. 36-38
Summary:

No summary available.

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