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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
23 February 1887
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/19(1)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/19(2)
Summary:

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From:
John Francis Snyder
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 February 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/221
Summary:

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From:
William Addison Phillips
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
26 February 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/212
Summary:

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From:
James McCosh
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 February 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/198
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Francis Snyder
Date:
4 March 1887
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1893). [Letter from Alfred R. Wallace to J. F. Snyder on "the Ohio llama"]. The Archaeologist (Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society) : 1 (12): 235-241 [p. 240]
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Kinsley Twining
Date:
4 March 1887
Source of text:
Princeton University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections: C0818 (Editorial Correspondence of the Independent), Box 1, Folder 8. Manuscripts Division. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Princeton University Library
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Benjamin W. Austin
Date:
5 March 1887
Source of text:
Edinburgh University Library: AAF, 8.7.69
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
16 March 1887
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/20(1)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/20(2)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/20(3)
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From Niagara Falls (Canada), describing the partly frozen falls and surrounding area; ferns entirely absent, probably taken by tourists, every rock and stump covered with (carved) names.

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From:
Samuel Pierpont Langley
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 April 1887
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/190
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/190
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Henry Edwards
Date:
4 April 1887
Source of text:
West Virginia State Archives: William Henry Edwards Collection (MS 79-2), Correspondence 23, 310
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Mitten
Date:
4 April [1887]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/23
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
5 April 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/24
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Henry Edwards
Date:
6 April 1887
Source of text:
West Virginia State Archives: William Henry Edwards Collection (MS 79-2), Correspondence 23, 311
Summary:

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From:
Ellen Wellman
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
11 April 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/290
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
17 April 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/25
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
22 April 1887
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/26(1)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/26(3)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/26(2)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/26(4)
Summary:

Describing the countryside around Cincinnati and the spring flowers in the woods, with botanical and common names; flower roots sent to Miss Jekyll; instructions to let the house (in England) for up to six months if possible; money earned from lectures, lectures scheduled in Bloomington Indiana, Sioux City Iowa and Kansas but no others so far; possibility of travelling to California if a lecture can be given in San Francisco; Diphtheria; enclosing press cuttings with instructions to keep any sent together as they may be useful material for a book; enclosing a Canadian stamp and a hunting story [press cutting] for Willie (neither present). Press cutting headlined "Colors in animals. Their uses clearly explained" reporting on ARW's lecture at Smith & Nixon's Hall, Cincinnati; annotated in ARW's hand "Cincinnati Enquirer Ap 23/87 A bad lamp! Which went out in the mid of the lecture!!!"; Press cutting from The Post undated (c. Apr 1887) headlined "Dr. Wallace. A scientist of world-wide reputation in Cincinnati" with brief details of ARW, motioning his opinion of Henry George in relation to land monopoly and his forthcoming lecture at Smith & Nixon's Hall.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
4 May 1887
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/28(1)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/28(2)
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Mitten
Date:
13 May 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/29
Summary:

ARW describes to Mitten the flora, vegetation, geology and landscapes he has travelled through in North America including the Mississippi at St Louis, Cincinnati, Kansas, Sioux City (the latter he compares to the Downs between Clayton and Lewes). ARW invites Mitten to join him, giving approximate costs of travel and living expenses.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
15 May 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/30
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
16 May 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/31
Summary:

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