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WCP1284

From:
John Wallace
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 May 1853
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/96/10
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
Summary:

Discusses promising new technology of the Erickkson [sic] (Ericsson) Caloric Engine, an innovative heat transfer machine, fueled by wood or coal. His job as head of the Water project includes “laying out branch ditches, building dams and bridges, fluming across valleys, etc.” Must be on call at any hour “when anything happens to the ditch”; must immediately assemble a crew of laborers to repair damage. He supervises every detail of the whole system, 40 miles long “over roughest country and steepest hillsides.”

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WCP4308

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
June 1853
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
Summary:

Application made to the Royal Geographical Society detailing ARW’s proposed trip to the Malay Archipelago and requesting free passage for the journey.

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WCP351

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 July 1853
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/26
Summary:

Became worried when hadn’t heard from you (ARW); wondered what “catastrophe” found you, “whether you were shipwrecked, or got married” or overdosed “on plum pudding.” Finally learned of the fire that took your ship and collections; sympathize with your “sufferings and irreparable losses” and admire your stoicism. “I [too] have] looked death in the face.” Local Indians became drunk at a public feast and “threatened to murder all the whites” (all three of us). We were obliged to keep “constant [armed] watch for two days and nights.” Had they attacked, they could have easily killed us “for they were 150 against 3.” Local scoundrel named Chagas, “with a face exactly like the back of a Surinam toad” (ie. hideously pock-marked), has been helpful in arranging river expeditions for plant collecting, but “also took a special delight in cheating me.” Currently we’re preparing for a voyage up the Casiquiare, with the intention of entering the Rio Cunucunuma; next year we’ll explore the sources of the Orinoco.

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WCP1638

From:
John Wallace
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
18 July 1853
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/96/11 WP1/3/96/12
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP5577

From:
John Wallace
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
August 1853
Source of text:
California Historical Society
Summary:

John’s instructions to ARW on paying back debts of 180 lbs borrowed in 1849 to their mother and others. Will also send some beetles he has collected to find out if they may be valuable.

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WCP3559

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
27 August 1853
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
Summary:

ARW declines offer of passage “from Trincomalee to Singapore & [then] to Borneo” as taking too much time and expense, and “should prefer waiting for another opportunity.”

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WCP3563

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Ralph Bernal Osborne
Date:
7 November 1853
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
Summary:

After a necessary delay for “necessary preparations,” and publication of his “Travels in South America,” ARW is now ready to embark for Singapore, Batavia, or other parts of Eastern Archipelago as soon as passage becomes available.

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WCP3678

From:
[William Alexander?] [Bailie-Hamilton?]
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
15 November 1853
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 FOREIGN OFFICE
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP3560

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
29 November 1853
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP5407

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
J. P. G. Smith
Date:
21 December 1853
Source of text:
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Special Collections: Thordarson Collection, Thordarson T 4567
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP3555

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
[3] [February] [1854]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP3556

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
4 February 1854
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP4306

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Alexander Bailie-Hamilton
Date:
8 February 1854
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP3557

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
8 February 1854
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP3558

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
8 February 1854
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP1289

From:
John Wallace
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
11 February 1854
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/96/15
  • California Historical Society
Summary:

One of a set of letters providing in-depth descriptions John Wallace's life in the gold mining town of Columbia, California, building a system to bring water to gold mining operations in the town.

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WCP4309

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Wodehouse
Date:
23 February 1854
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: Letter Book Nov 1850 - Nov 1859 f.127-128
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP3648

From:
John Wodehouse
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
24 February 1854
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 FOREIGN OFFICE
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP3643

From:
John Wodehouse
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 March 1854
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 FOREIGN OFFICE
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP352

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Charles Silk
Date:
[19 & 26 Mar. 1854]
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/27
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 45-47]
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 171-174]
Summary:

Journey to Alexandria; life on board ship, fellow travellers, anti-cholera precautions at Gibraltar, Cairo, the desert, Alexandria, donkey drivers.

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