The interview with him published in the Daily News and his views on poverty.
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The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 - 1913) was one of the world's most important scientists. His seminal contributions to biology rival those of his friend and colleague Charles Darwin, though he is far less well known. Together Wallace and Darwin proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection in 1858, and their prolific subsequent work laid the foundations of modern evolutionary biology, and much more besides.
Wallace made enduring scholarly contributions to subjects as diverse as glaciology, land reform, anthropology, ethnography, epidemiology, and astrobiology. His pioneering work on evolutionary biogeography (the science that seeks to explain the geographical distribution of organisms) led to him becoming recognised as that subject’s ‘father’. Beyond this Wallace is regarded as the pre-eminent collector and field biologist of tropical regions of the 19th century, and his book The Malay Archipelago (which was Joseph Conrad’s favourite bedside reading) is one of the most celebrated travel writings of that century and has never been out of print. Wallace was a man with an extraordinary breadth of interests who was actively engaged with many of the big questions and important issues of his day. He was anti-slavery, anti-eugenics, anti-vivisection, anti-militarism, anti-Imperialism, a conservationist and an advocate of woman's rights. He strongly believed in the rights of the ordinary person, was a socialist, an anti-vaccinationist (for rational reasons), and a believer in naturalistic, evolutionary spiritualism. He did not come from a privileged background and was largely self-taught. For a brief biography see https://wallaceletters.myspecies.info/content/mini-biography
The Wallace Correspondence Project (WCP) was founded by George Beccaloni in 2010. Its aims are to locate, digitise, catalogue, transcribe, interpret and publish Wallace's surviving correspondence and other manuscripts. About 5,700 letters to and from Wallace are currently known to survive, and they are held by c. 240 institutions and individuals worldwide. Wallace's letters are a biographical treasure trove, which provides a far better picture of the 'real' Wallace than his heavily edited and censored published writings (e.g. his autobiography My Life (1905) and his letters in Marchant's Letters and Reminiscences (1916)). For example, Wallace never even mentions his wife's name (Annie) in any of his published writings, including his autobiography. The letters are also key to gaining a deeper understanding of his scientific and other work: how and why his ideas arose, and how they evolved over time.
The WCP is unlocking this valuable resource by gathering all the letters together for the first time, and transcribing them so that they can be more easily read and information within them discovered using electronic searches for words and phrases. The vast amount of unpublished information which is coming to light will surely form the basis for numerous articles, scholarly papers, PhD theses and perhaps the first definitive biography.
Epsilon is being used by the WCP's as its online archive of Wallace's correspondence. It replaces our previous archive, Wallace Letters Online, which was last updated in 2015. The process of editing the transcripts and associated metadata is a work in progress which will take many years to complete. Our project’s policy is, however, to make the information we have available to users at the earliest possible opportunity, even if it is incomplete and/or imperfect. For a guide to our data, including the protocols we use for metadata and transcriptions, please see https://wallaceletters.myspecies.info/content/epsilon
The interview with him published in the Daily News and his views on poverty.
Congratulating ARW on reaching his 90th birthday, reminding him of her parents who knew him at Bryncoch and aunt Catherine Rees who caught butterflies for him, and asking if he could send her a photo of himself.
Welcoming news of ARW's forthcoming book on wages and poverty but doubting that it will do anything to change the nature of capitalists; evils of Capitalism, global capitalist control of food, fuel, transport communication and the press; advocating armed revolution.
Asking for an article for publication on his opinion on the Insurance Act as an instrument of social reform.
Asking for ARW's autograph; envelope addressed "sir Russel Alfred Wallace Esq.".
Congratulating ARW on reaching his 90th birthday, mentioning his connections with the Usk, Neath and Swansea districts and offering a copy of Phillips' book The Romantic History of the Monastic Libraries of Wales, Celtic and Mediaeval Periods..
ARW's reply to his previous letter of 8 Jan 1913 (See WCP487) saying that there is no South African Consul in London; asking for the addresses of any wealthy South Africans ARW may know.
Congratulating ARW on his 90th birthday.
Congratulating ARW on reaching his 90th birthday and on his achievements.
Reminding ARW of the ARW's stay at his guest house twenty years earlier, and congratulating him on reaching his eighty-ninth (sic) birthday.
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Thanking ARW for the reply to his letter of 10 Jan 1913; Bible text; workmen voters; the evils of Capitalism; entry of the poor into the Army and its degrading effects; advocating the possession of a rifle by everyone over the age of fourteen and armed revolution.
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Congratulating ARW on his 90th birthday.
Congratulating ARW on his 90th birthday on behalf of the officers and members.
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Congratulating ARW on reaching his 90th birthday; in 1875 she used his book on the Malay Archipelago as a guide when travelling from Singapore to Australia via the Torres Strait islands.
Congratulating ARW on reaching his 90th birthday and on his achievements.
No summary available.
A spiritualist pamphlet written by ARW and published by the Spiritualists' National Union, asking him to autograph an enclosed copy (not present) to be included in a collection of similar pamphlets the writer intends to have bound; wishing him good health and happiness.