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WCP5261

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
[1909?]
Source of text:
Anon. (1909). [Letter of support]. The Vaccination Inquirer : 30 (360): 202
Summary:

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WCP7006

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Ludvig Verner Helms
Date:
1909
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 39]
Summary:

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WCP1835

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Committee of the Literary Fund
Date:
2 January 1909
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Loan 96 RLF 1/2305/121
Summary:

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WCP1814

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Eeles Dresser
Date:
6 January 1909
Source of text:
John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester: English Manuscript 1404
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP1815

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Eleanor Walmisley Dresser
Date:
12 January 1909
Source of text:
John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester: English Manuscript 1404
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP6514

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Deacon Girdlestone
Date:
12 January 1909
Source of text:
Uppsala University: Waller Ms alb-BD2:73
Summary:

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Contributor:
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WCP1816

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Eeles Dresser
Date:
14 January 1909
Source of text:
John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester: English Manuscript 1404
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP1817

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Eleanor Walmisley Dresser
Date:
18 January 1909
Source of text:
Institution of Engineering and Technology, The: English Manuscript 1404
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP1818

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Eleanor Walmisley Dresser
Date:
24 January 1909
Source of text:
John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester: English Manuscript 1404
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP4441

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
26 January 1909
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 94
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 94
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 88-89]
Summary:

About butterfly collections in the museum. Had enjoyed a visit as Mr Rothschild had brought out cases of butterflies from Tring. About Poulton's invitation -ARW must decline as he cannot stay away from home for more than one night without discomfort. "All the attractions of your celebrations are, to me repulsions." About his planned book.

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WCP6985

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement King Shorter
Date:
26 January 1909
Source of text:
Leeds University Library, Special Collections: BC. Shorter correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP1678

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Mrs Marshall
Date:
27 January 1909
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP7/108(1)
  • Anon. (1909). Dr. A. R. Wallace and woman suffrage. The Times (London): 38880: 10
Summary:

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Contributor:
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WCP4442

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
27 January 1909
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 95
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 95
Summary:

About Miss Pascoe's address and Pascoe's collections in London.

Contributor:
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WCP4443

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
28 January 1909
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 96
Summary:

Is trying to determine the location of Orchid the Castnia came from. Does not want notices of his own books - overwhelmed with papers.

Contributor:
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WCP198

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
31 January 1909
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/201
Summary:

Giving the Royal Institution lecture, (for the Jubilee of Origin of Species) much easier than expected, audience of 800 people, resident Prof of Chemistry Sir James Dewar provided cocoa and sandwiches in his rooms afterwards; visit to the Museum (BMNH) to see Diplodocus, butterflies and New Guinea Bird of Paradise; visit by Sir William Preece and his son, discussion about William, his health, suggestion he learn signalling and try to get work in wireless telegraphy.

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WCP144

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
6 February 1909
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/146
Summary:

William's career, health, fees at sanatorium; wireless telegraphy; X-rays.

Contributor:
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WCP1782

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Waddington
Date:
16 February 1909
Source of text:
Wellcome Trust: MS.7798/3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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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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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.

Contributor:
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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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