Search: Wallace, Alfred Russel in author 
1890-1899::1897 in date 
letter in document-type 
Yes in transcription-available 
Sorted by:

Showing 41–59 of 59 items

Text Online

WCP4540

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
26 November 1897
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 192
Summary:

About butterfly exhibition and Will's travels in America.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP4541

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
20 December 1897
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 193
Summary:

Questions about Professor Lippman's method of colour photography for his book on the century. More about his son, Will, who is working in Denver.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP4542

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
30 December 1897
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 194
Summary:

Thanks for Meldola's explanation of Lippman's theory of colour photography, and discussion of this.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP4651

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Grant Blairfindie ("Grant") Allen
Date:
21 April 1897
Source of text:
Dittrick Medical History Center of Case Western Reserve University
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP4784

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Job Collins
Date:
12 May 1897
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: Alfred Russel Wallace Collection MSS.B.W15a
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP4785

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Stephens Salt
Date:
26 September 1897
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: Alfred Russel Wallace Collection MSS.B.W15a
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP4820

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Augustin Frédéric Adolphe Hamon
Date:
21 September 1897
Source of text:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam: Hamon Papers
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP5121

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Fletcher Barrett
Date:
12 September 1897
Source of text:
Barrett, W. F. (1900). On the so-called divining rod. A psycho-physical research on a peculiar faculty alleged to exist in certain persons locally known as dowsers. Book II. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research : 15 (38): 130-383 [pp. 277 & 374-375]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP5425

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
James Marchant
Date:
1897
Source of text:
Abe Books (bookseller)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP5465

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Thomas Edwin? Ashworth?
Date:
6 July 1897
Source of text:
  • Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: Slg Darmst. Amerika 1848
  • Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: Slg Darmst. Amerika 18481
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP5633

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
27 April 1897
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 72]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP5634

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
8 July 1897
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 74]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP5746

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
Date:
9 April 1897
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 205]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP625

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Mitten
Date:
21 July 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP15/1/5
Summary:

Sending Jamaica and Singapore moss; plants in flower in ARW's pond and garden, letters from son William, who is working on a railway [in America]; purchase of land by the Parish [at Hurstpierpoint]; convolvulus. Notes: When first listed this was were in a brown cardboard box in the form of a book, entitled "Letters" on spine, containing miscellaneous apparently unrelated letters and photos; it seems more appropriate here.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP6600

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
16 September 1897
Source of text:
Forum Auctions (auction)
Summary:

ARW will be going for a stroll in the forest with Mr Mitten who is staying with them; they will call in on CR on the way back.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP6607

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
James Marchant
Date:
12 September 1897
Source of text:
Forum Auctions (auction)
Summary:

ARW states that most spiritualists consider the appearance of Christ after the crucifixion as materialisations, and discusses this point. Thanks JM for his kind appreciation of his book on Darwinism.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP6608

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
James Marchant
Date:
17 September 1897
Source of text:
Forum Auctions (auction)
Summary:

ARW replies to JM's request for the view held by most Spiritualists as to the Resurrection of Christ, and discusses the subject, "We look on all spiritualistic phenomena as natural phenomena". ARW states that there is interesting matter on this subject in Dr Crowell's Primitive Christianity and Modern Spiritualism, especially Vol. I, ch. XXII-XXV.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP696

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Frederick ("Fred") Birch
Date:
1897-1900?
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418458
Summary:

Describes parts of the country famous for their wild flowers, including the Vale of Neath and High Force in Teesdale. Looks forward to Birch's description of his Welsh tour and writes, "I love Wales more than any part of our country. I lived at Neath 5 or 6 years and I know nothing more beautiful than the Vale of Neath right up to the grand Brecknock Beacons".

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP817

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Ernst Johann Otto Hartert
Date:
21 January 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM TM1-31-9-132
Summary:

Thanks for sending papers on birds of Baly [sic], Lombok, Tomboro, Sumba & other islands. Pleased to find that despite many additions to birds on Bali + Lombok "the broad facts of distribution as indicated by myself remain almost as marked as ever".

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Author
Addressee
Correspondent
Date
Document type
Contributor
Transcription available