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WCP1452

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Botting Hemsley
Date:
17 June 1907
Source of text:
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Papers of WB Hemsley Vol. 2
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 214
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/252
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WCP1453

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Botting Hemsley
Date:
24 November 1908
Source of text:
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Papers of WB Hemsley Vol. 2
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 305
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/253
Summary:

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WCP1476

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
3 July 1902
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/276
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 109
Summary:

ARW thanks C. R. for abstracts on "hanging valleys". ARW mentions his theory of seed migration through the air and is looking for evidence. Enquires if C. R. has geological survey work in Cornwall, or has he retired. ARW is building a house at Broadstone "on a very pretty bit of land".

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WCP1482

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
13 June 1909
Source of text:
  • Linnean Society of London: MS 140a-27
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46438 f. 46
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/282
Summary:

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WCP1483

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
22 June 1909
Source of text:
  • Linnean Society of London: MS 140a-28
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46438 ff. 50-51
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/283
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 90-91]
Summary:

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WCP1484

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
1 September 1909
Source of text:
  • Linnean Society of London: MS 140a-29
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46438 f. 87
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/284
Summary:

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WCP1508

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Thomas Colley
Date:
17 March 1907
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/9/8
Summary:

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WCP1561

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
E. Macdonald
Date:
25 December 1906
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP2/6/3/2/3
Summary:

Thanking her for gift of an almanac and wishing her a happy new year. [copied by Miss E? Macdonald and sent to Violet Wallace from Broomhill, Sheffield 19 Jan 1914].

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WCP1562

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
E. Macdonald
Date:
21 February 1908
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP2/6/3/2/4
Summary:

ARW thanks Macdonald for the new year gift of an almanac; apologies for lateness, due to not knowing where she went for her holidays; weather; his daughter Violet's lack of work.

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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.

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WCP1564

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
E. Macdonald
Date:
28 February 1909
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP2/6/3/2/6
Summary:

Discusses a press cutting sent by Macdonald on the spiritualist medium consulted by Abraham Lincoln; an American book recently published on Lincoln's spiritualism.

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WCP1624

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Sydney Carlyle Cockerell
Date:
17 December 1905
Source of text:
  • Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin: Charles Darwin Papers
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP16/1/93/4
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46442 ff. 16-17
  • Meynell, V. (Ed.). (1940). In: Friends of a Lifetime: Letters to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell. London: J. Cape. [p. 211]
Summary:

Thanks for Kropotkin's Life; feels strong similarity of his own early life to Kropotkin's despite differences of wealth, rank and country. Is also reading Whiteing's No. 5 John Street (1899).

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WCP1625

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Sydney Carlyle Cockerell
Date:
15 January 1906
Source of text:
  • Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin: Charles Darwin Papers
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP16/1/93/5
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46442 f. 17
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 160]
  • Meynell, V. (Ed.). (1940). In: Friends of a Lifetime: Letters to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell. London: J. Cape. [pp. 211-212]
Summary:

Discusses Kropotkin's Life, which he has just finished reading.

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WCP164

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
13 January 1901
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/167
Summary:

Dora Best painting a portrait of ARW, possibly for sending to the Royal Academy; no more news about the Beaconsfield affair except that Prof Barrett and Dr Abraham Wallace will join it; William's sister Violet and May Swinton leaving tomorrow; beginning work on new edition of Wonderful Century; Mr Casey's latest enigma; reading Julie.

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WCP165

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
25 January [1902]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/168
Summary:

Progress of house building [at "Old Orchard", Broadstone], workmen's shop put up in grounds by Percy Curtis who will mark foundations next week and begin excavating; Mr Donkin says plans ready to send to Mr Barnes and building committee; water mains laid to main road; greenhouse ordered from Cooper; plans to put stove under house to warm both it and greenhouse; William to remember acetylene and fire-brick; sending books Kim and one on Anglo-Saxon history, opinions of both.

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WCP166

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
8 February 1901
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/169
Summary:

Work on new edition of Wonderful Century, will leave chapter on electricity until last; answer to latest (newspaper) enigma; watch repairs; William's holiday and Fellowship dinner (in America); winter weather; plot and character in The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentza [sic, for Hentzau. Both by Anthony Hope].

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WCP167

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
2 March [1902]
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/170
  • 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. 120]
Summary:

Progress of house building at "Old Orchard" (Broadstone); collapse of cellar excavations after wet weather but cellar walls now going up, plans for drainage of cellar, concrete footings for outer walls well advanced, three bricklayers and six labourers working, Mr Donkin's drawings for windows done; horses and cows from adjacent fields have eaten some garden plants, fencing now improved; ARW has recommenced work on new edition of his New Century and finished chapter on Astronomy; request for information on the "Dargue" system of acetylene gas.

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WCP1671

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
2 March 1901
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP2/6/3/8(123)
Summary:

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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:

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WCP1678

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Mrs Marshall
Date:
27 January 1909
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP7/108(1)
  • Anon. (1909). Dr. A. R. Wallace and woman suffrage. The Times (London): 38880: 10
Summary:

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