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WCP1832

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
31 October 1908
Source of text:
Royal Society, The: MC.08479
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP4438

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
2 November 1908
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 91
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 91
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 87]
Summary:

It would be impossible and useless for ARW to promise any help and advice with Poulton's proposed periodical. Criticisms of the journal Nature. About his Royal Institution lecture. Has been ill.

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WCP4439

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
6 November 1908
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 92
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 92
Summary:

About the Copley medal. ARW will not have his name put on something that he hasn't taken part in. Comments on recent inaccurate articles. Believer in inspiration. "All my best ideas have come to me suddenly." Importance of finding a good editor for the journal.

Contributor:
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WCP194

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
6 November 1908
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/197
Summary:

Doctor's Douglas Wood's report on William's health; sending a cheque; his own health improving; outline of lecture (for the Royal Institution) done, title to be The World of Life: As Visualised and Interpreted by Darwinism; wooden fence almost finished; proofs of index to Spruce book (Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes by Richard Spruce, ed. and condensed by ARW, Dec. 1908) only just arrived, six weeks after MS sent, so publication of book may be delayed; reading The Yellow Room, in the style of Gaborian, not as good as Sherlock Holmes; has decided O.M. means "Old Man"; sending book [My Life] to Benham today.

Contributor:
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WCP3508

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
10 November 1908
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 55221 f. 115
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP3797

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
David Prain
Date:
11 November 1908
Source of text:
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: MR/759
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: MR/759
  • Anon. (1908). Richard Spruce. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information: 10: 464
Summary:

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WCP3579

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Scott Keltie
Date:
12 November 1908
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB7 1881-1910 A. R. WALLACE
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP5661

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
15 November 1908
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP3580

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Scott Keltie
Date:
16 November 1908
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB7 1881-1910 A. R. WALLACE
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP4558

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
16 November 1908
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 210
Summary:

Has had a new idea for a lecture, which will put Darwinism in a new light and leave mutationism nowhere.

Contributor:
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WCP1825

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
17 November 1908
Source of text:
University of California, Santa Barbara: MSS 28: Box 6: 12, Wallace, Alfred Russel
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP6604

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
17 November 1908
Source of text:
Forum Auctions (auction)
Summary:

Thanks for congratulations. Glad to hear he is coming to this part of the world again.

Contributor:
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WCP6947

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Matthew Bartendale Slater
Date:
17 November 1908
Source of text:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies: MS F 925WAI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP1812

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Eeles Dresser
Date:
18 November 1908
Source of text:
John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester: English Manuscript 1404
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP3522

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
19 November 1908
Source of text:
Wellcome Trust: MS7830/57
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP783

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Owen Waterhouse
Date:
23 November 1908
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418281
Summary:

Would like to have nearest available estimate of the total number of described, or known, Coleoptera - or those in the Museum. Also from Mr Kirby or who now is in charge of Lepidoptera, approximate number of special in that order - for lecture at the Royal Institution, hence approximation will be sufficient.

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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:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP544

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Spencer
Date:
25 November 1908
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/73
Summary:

Asking to be excused attendance at the investiture of the Order of Merit at Buckingham Palace on 12 December, on the grounds of age and delicate health. Annotated in [ARW's hand] "copy sent".

Contributor:
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WCP5471

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Strang
Date:
28 November 1908
Source of text:
Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution: MSS 001526 A
Summary:

Arranging for Strang to visit and make a portrait of ARW in connection to him being awarded the Order of Merit.

Contributor:
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WCP5389

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Hall, Leonard & Hall, Pattie & Hall, Nellie & Hall, Spencer & Hall, Nora
Date:
[December?] [1908]
Source of text:
Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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