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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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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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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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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project