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WCP459

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Mitten
Date:
21 May 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/43
Summary:

Urges Mitten to join him in June or July at Manitou Springs in the Rocky Mountains, has met a lady botanist who says plants magnificent; detailed instructions on route from Quebec or Montreal, advice on luggage, clothing, plant boxes and sphagnum, travel by steamer and train, sleeping car accommodation and cost versus hotels; will write to wife Annie from San Francisco.

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WCP4840

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Citizens of Stockton
Date:
24 May 1887
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1887). [Reply from Alfred R. Wallace to the citizens of Stockton, California]. The Mail (Stockton) : 15 (95): 2
Summary:

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WCP448

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
24 May 1887
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/32(1)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/32(2)
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP449

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Frances ("Fanny") Sims (née Wallace)
Date:
30 May 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/33
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP1356

From:
George Davidson
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 June 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/168
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP3121

From:
Amasa Leland Stanford
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 June 1887
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 ff. 78-79
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP4498

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
19 June 1887
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 150
Summary:

Description of American travels; the best thing that he has seen are the pine forests and the majestic Sequoias. Wry comments on Americans. A splendid country to travel in, but a poor country to live in. Discusses weather conditions.

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WCP450

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
19 June 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/34
Summary:

Instructs Annie how to complete ARW's tax return in his absence. ARW also chastises Annie for not dating her previous two letters to him and states that their daughter has picked up this bad habit, but their son Willie, "shows the hereditary business instinct of the male animal by duly dating"! ARW bemoans the US government postal weight restrictions affecting his posting of plants back to England. ARW concludes his letter by stating how miserable California is and that "nowhere in America yet have I seen a place I should like to live in".

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WCP451

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
24 June 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/35
Summary:

The weather and the seasons and that ARW has not seen a single place he should like to live in. He writes of "Big Trees" including Redwoods and tells of his plans to visit Santa Cruz and Lake Tahoe before coming home in late August. ARW also mentions that he has been lecturing on Spiritualism in San Francisco.

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WCP400

From:
Frances ("Fanny") Sims (née Wallace)
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 June 1887
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/83(1)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/83(2)
Summary:

Papers received from California with news of ARW's lectures there; John's conversion (to spiritualism); possible identity of people named [during a séance]; the Sims's (photography) business, lack of wealthy customers, photographing cowboys from the American Exhibition.

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WCP1512

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
29 June [1887]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/9/12
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP453

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Mitten
Date:
1 July 1887
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/37(1)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/37(2)
Summary:

Plans to go to the Rocky Mountains; will look out for medicinal plants for Mitten.

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WCP452

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
1 July 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/36
Summary:

Her success in letting the house; visit to Yosemite and Santa Cruz with his brother John to see big trees; swollen and ulcerated lip confining him to the house, plans to visit Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada when well; ferns from Santa Cruz sent to Miss Jekyll; Mr Marshall; problems with posting items from America; ARW's San Francisco lecture on spiritualism well attended and further offer from Chicago, Spiritualism pays better than Natural History; sending ferns from Yosemite; description of Sequoia sempervirens seen in the Redwood forests and exotic plants in California; California as a place to live.

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WCP4499

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
4 July 1887
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 151
Summary:

Asking if the British Association keep a list of lecture engagements, as ARW would like a few engagements for the coming winter.

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WCP454

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Mitten
Date:
10 July 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/38
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP455

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Mitten
Date:
15 July 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/39
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP1354

From:
Anne C. Craig
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 July 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/166
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP456

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Mitten
Date:
31 July 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/40
Summary:

From ARW to his father-in-law instructing he forward the enclosed information to Annie his wife about his movements and intentions regarding his returning home from his North American tour. ARW also describes his trip out the previous day to a primeval forest and the plant species he encountered.

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WCP457

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
31 July 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/41
Summary:

From ARW to his wife describing his week spent in the Rocky Mountains and celebrating the plant variety there. He remarks that the air was too dry for ferns. ARW states that Colorado Springs is the only place in America that it would be pleasant to live. He advises Annie that he will be leaving for home at once via Kingston and Quebec and sailing to Liverpool or Glasgow.

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WCP458

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
3 August 1887
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/42(1)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/42(2)
Summary:

In this letter ARW informs his wife when he is to leave Canada and when he expects to arrive in Liverpool. ARW suggests that they all go to the Lake District for a holiday where they have never been. Wales and Derbyshire are suggested as alternative destinations. ARW signs off saying he is going to the Thousand Islands.

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