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WCP3366

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Botting Hemsley
Date:
24 June 1903
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 54316 ff. 422-423
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP178

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
25 June 1903
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/181
Summary:

Approval of William's notes [on proofs of Man's place in the Universe], sending four more chapters, relieved to be finished, thinks the book will sell well; enclosing a letter (not present) from Hicks; going to meet Mrs Fisher.

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WCP3926

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Botting Hemsley
Date:
28 June 1903
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: HEM/1/2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP5151

From:
[unknown person]
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
30 June 1903
Source of text:
University of Reading, Special Collections: MS3280 Letter Book 38 - 26th March to 18th December 1903 p. 293
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP179

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
30 June 1903
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/182
Summary:

Proof reading of his book, [Man's place in the Universe] sending the last four chapters; agrees section on the sun vague, argument on light of stars cut out; gravitation and angular velocity of forces at earth's centre; Mr Marshall to read proofs also, asks William Greenell Wallace to compare readings with him; writing rushed but can be improved in a new edition. The last page is annotated in pencil [in William Greenell Wallace's hand] with mathematical calculations.

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WCP4624

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
2 July 1903
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 282
Summary:

Asks if it is correct to say that the oxygen and carbon in CO2 can only be separated in the laboratory by great heat?.

Contributor:
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WCP180

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
8 July 1903
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/183
  • 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. [pp. 121-122]
Summary:

William Greenell Wallace's proof corrections [to Man's Place in the Universe], stars, Milky Way, Solar Cluster, Jupiter; speculation in accordance with known facts; difference of opinion over spiritualism; writing an article for the Fortnightly; purchase of a telescope from Cooke of York, better than the last, making a stand for it; trying to help Fred Birch to get a post as Museum curator in the Federated Malay States.

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WCP78

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
16 July 1903
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/78
Summary:

Domestic affairs; William's career prospects; progress of work his book The Wonderful Century.

Contributor:
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WCP4417

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
20 July 1903
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 70
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 70
Summary:

ARW seeks advice on behalf of young insect collector who wishes to travel abroad. Discusses possible regions - asks Poulton's opinion.

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WCP4418

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
24 July 1903
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 71
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 71
Summary:

About arrangements for Poulton's visit. Thanks for information for young collector - discusses matter further.

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WCP2829

From:
Oliver Joseph Lodge
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 July 1903
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 138
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP79

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
27 July 1903
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/79
Summary:

Domestic affairs; William's career prospects.

Contributor:
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WCP681

From:
[unknown person]
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 July 1903
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418420
Summary:

Discusses parts of the world where it might be profitable for Frederick Birch to collect, including Burma, British Guiana and other parts of South America.

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WCP4186

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Ernst Johann Otto Hartert
Date:
29 July 1903
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM TR/1/1/24/475
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP690

From:
Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
30 July 1903
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418444
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP4187

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan
Date:
31 July 1903
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM TR/1/1/24/475
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP691

From:
Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 August 1903
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418445
Summary:

Rothschild cannot at present engage another collector [i.e. Frederick Birch] for the Museum. Offers suggestions of possible purchasers, and that Birch might find employment on the Cuban railways.

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WCP687

From:
Frederick Du Cane Godman
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 August 1903?
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418442
Summary:

There are few people in England now acquiring tropical collections. Walter Rothschild is willing to pay good prices for mammals, birds and Lepidoptera, but is less interested in smaller fauna. Discusses the potential of profitable collecting in Cuba, British Guiana and the Sierra Nevada.

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WCP5522

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Schaus
Date:
19 August 1903
Source of text:
Joseph F. Cullman Library, Smithsonian Institution: QL101 .W18 1876aX
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP2830

From:
Félix Brandaux
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 August 1903
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 ff. 139-140
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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