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WCP199

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
23 February 1909
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/202
  • 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. 129-130]
Summary:

Sending copy of Pall Mall Magazine containing interview with and photos of ARW; description of Diplodocus skeleton at the Natural History Museum, donated by Carnegie; Birds of Paradise; meeting at NHM with Jordan and Rothschild who had brought some New Guinea butterflies for him to see, invitation from Rothschild to spend a week at Tring, may go in the summer; emergence of three small longicorn beetles from a clump of orchids sent from Buenos Ayres by John Hall, two caught and identified by British Museum as a species of Ibidion not in its collection; capture of a large orange and brown moth or butterfly which Rothschild thinks a Castnia, in the orchid house and a chrysalis on same orchid as the one harbouring the longicorns, has sent moth and chrysalis to Prof Poulton for the Oxford collection, amazement that the same plant should produce both a rare moth and beetle after a year in a greenhouse.

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WCP2925

From:
Sidney Frederic Harmer
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
24 February 1909
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46438 f. 7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP4444

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
25 February 1909
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 97
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 97
Summary:

About Pascoe's collections. About World of Life article in the Fortnightly - comments on a new part of his argument. Comment on Times article on Darwinian Centenary written by Bather.

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WCP6605

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
27 February 1909
Source of text:
Forum Auctions (auction)
Summary:

ARW has been reading Mrs Reid's paper in the ?Linnean Society Journal about disintegrating peat. ARW has some brought from Somersetshire and Ireland. Asks for reference in recent book to a summary of present knowledge of Palaeontology, like the "Table of British Fossils" at the end of Lyell's Students Elements.

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WCP1564

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
E. Macdonald
Date:
28 February 1909
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP2/6/3/2/6
Summary:

Discusses a press cutting sent by Macdonald on the spiritualist medium consulted by Abraham Lincoln; an American book recently published on Lincoln's spiritualism.

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WCP4445

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
1 March 1909
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 98
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 98
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 89]
Summary:

About Pascoe's collections. Lankester's reply to Times article. Darwinism explaining things Mutationists don't. About Dr. Dixey's candidature to R.S.

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WCP2926

From:
Sidney Frederic Harmer
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 March 1909
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46438 f. 8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP2928

From:
Robert Stawell Ball
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 March 1909
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46438 ff. 11-16
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP2927

From:
David Anderson
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 March 1909
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46438 ff. 9-10
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP2929

From:
J. P. O'Brien
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 March 1909
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add MS 46438, ff. 17-21
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46438 ff. 21
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP5639

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
Date:
6 March 1909
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 89-90]
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP6606

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Eleanor Mary Reid (née Wynne Edwards)
Date:
6 March 1909
Source of text:
Forum Auctions (auction)
Summary:

Since ARW sent the bit of peat, he has learned that it came from Somersetshire between Evercreech and Glastonbury.

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WCP4446

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
11 March 1909
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 99
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 99
Summary:

Pascoe's papers.

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WCP148

From:
Abraham Wallace
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
15 March 1909
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/150
Summary:

William's health.

Contributor:
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WCP2930

From:
Herbert Knight Horsfield
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 March 1909
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46438 ff. 22-23
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP3271

From:
Sydney Carlyle Cockerell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 March 1909
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46442 ff. 74-75
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP2730

From:
Frederick Ogden Loesch
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
18 March 1909
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 ff. 254-255
Summary:

Discusses ARW's scheme for unemployment in the weekly New Age (vol. 4, 21, 18 Mar 1909, 431.

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WCP145

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
18 March 1909
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/147
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/138
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/151
Summary:

William's health, larynx, mediumistic healing, surgery; filing of papers and pamphlets; work on new book; encloses a "cutting of a rather old nigger story". Enclosures: letter from Dr A. Wallace, 39 Harley Street W London, 15 Mar 1909, to ARW re William's health; card recording an appointment for William with Dr St Clair Thomson.

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WCP3958

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Sydney Carlyle Cockerell
Date:
22 March 1909
Source of text:
  • Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin: Charles Darwin Papers
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP7/10
Summary:

ARW encloses "The first 8 letters I received from Darwin - (while in the Malay Archipelago)" in an envelope, plus his Address to the Linnean Society on receiving the Darwin-Wallace Medal on 1 July 1908.

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WCP620

From:
Sydney Carlyle Cockerell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 March 1909
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP11/4
Summary:

Safe arrival of MS of ARW's 1908 address to the Linnean Society and 8 autograph Darwin letters, for the Darwin Centenary exhibition in June.

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