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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
4 October 1895
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/65
Summary:

Bills from Violet's dressmaker and dentist; instructions for obtaining a copy of the County History of Lancashire; death of Crumpet, a family cat, and the fate of her kittens; ARW's article on language published, leading article on it in the Daily Chronicle; regards to Eleanor; Ma's (Annie Mitten) health; Violet's brother William still at Govan.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
24 November 1895
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/66
Summary:

Improvements to the orchid house; chess; correspondence; local gossip about Mrs Travers; details from a book on diet and life-style by an "inspired crank"; returning photos; returning coral named by Dr Allman.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Agathon de Potter
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
29 January 1895
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 f. 176
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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From:
Brooke Foss Westcott
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
November 1895
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 ff. 177-178
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Conwy Lloyd Morgan
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 May 1895
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 ff. 2-3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Jacques Élisée Reclus
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 July 1895
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 f. 143
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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From:
Jane Barlow
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
11 February [1895?]
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 ff. 144-145
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Edvard Alexander Westermarck
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
30 April 1895
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 ff. 146-147
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Matthew Jones
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 July 1895
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 ff. 148-149
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 135]
Summary:

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From:
[unknown person]
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 February 1895
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 f. 150
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Hugh Robert Mill
Date:
3 November 1895
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: HRM/4e
Summary:

Thanks Mills for sending him an account of the English Lake District along with detailed maps.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Wallis Mansford
Date:
16 January 1895
Source of text:
Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of South Carolina Libraries: QH31.W2 Z5 1895
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
Date:
17 September 1895
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: HNR/2/1/7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
Date:
4 December 1895
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: HNR/2/1/7
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
29 June 1895
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/4/4(2)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/4/4(1)
Summary:

Arrival of her letter from Grindenwald, is preparing for journey (with her father William Mitten), asks her for guide book with maps and to ensure Mitten's boots well nailed, will visit Meiringen and other places on Annie's recommendation; Dr Allman's gardener to care for orchids in ARW's absence; visit from Comerford-Casey and his daughter, visit by George Silk; visit by a student of Spiritualism and his wife who went into a trance and behaved as various characters including ARW's mother, photographs taken, possibly (a spirit) may be seen.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
[July] [1895]
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/4/5
  • 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. 115]
Summary:

Sending a box of plants, including Gentians, gathered at the Furka Pass, detailed instructions for planting in greenhouse, plans to put out on new rockery; Pa (Annie's father William Mitten) finding lots of curiosities including miniature willows; plans to go on to Grimsel Hospice and Meiringen.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
7 July 1895
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/4/6
Summary:

Arrival and journey with her father (William Mitten) by steamer and train, food, and plans to go on to Stangerbourn; her father's health.

Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
[11] July 1895
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/4/7
Summary:

Walk (with William Mitten) over Grimsel Pass, collecting Soldanellas and a Primula; plants boxed and sent off; plans to walk to Handeck to botanise and see a fine waterfall.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
6 February 1895
Source of text:
University College London, Special Collections: Galton 142/2B/3, Box 68
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
[13] July 1895
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/4/8(2)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/4/8(1)
Summary:

Walk with Annie's father (William Mitten) from Grimsel Hospice; visit to Reichenbach Falls and gorge of the Aar; sending a box of plants collected including a beech fern and some Asplenium septentrionale (fern); plans to go to Wengern and stay a week; Mitten collecting mosses; cost of postage of newspapers from England.

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