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WCP555

From:
Flora Mitten
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[8] [January] [1913]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/84
Summary:

Congratulating ARW (on reaching his 90th birthday).

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1395

From:
Francis Moore
To:
[Alfred Russel] [Wallace]
Date:
8 January 1913
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/206
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/206
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP558

From:
Newman & Heath
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 January 1913
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/87
Summary:

Congratulating ARW on reaching his 90th birthday and on his achievements.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP561

From:
Mrs Oppe
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 January 1913
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/90
Summary:

Congratulating ARW on reaching his 90th birthday.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP562

From:
C. E. Orridge
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 January 1913
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/91
Summary:

An article about his views of the past, present and future in The Star; Orridge's father's own foresight in predicting events; enclosing two plans for workers' homes and pensions and a booklet of his (Orridge's) own inventions (not present); Orridge's patented coal burning smokeless stove; wishing ARW many more years of peace and comfort (on his 90th birthday).

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP533

From:
Frank Page
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 January 1913
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/62
Summary:

Congratulating ARW on reaching his 90th birthday.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP6176

From:
Edward Adrian Woodruffe Peacock
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 January 1913
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London: 581-5-502-05-PEACOCK
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP568

From:
Christian Shamrock Radford
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 January 1913
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/97(1)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/97(2)
Summary:

Congratulating ARW on reaching his 90th birthday; referring to the interview with ARW ("The Spectre of Poverty", 6 Jan 1913) published in the Daily News & Leader and reminding ARW that they had met forty years earlier at a meeting in London with Dr Nichols and others; the writer's life and wages in fifty years spent as a gentleman's servant, bringing up a family without debt, his current pension of five shillings a week; abstinence from alcohol and tobacco; proposal to walk to Poole to visit ARW, giving details of other long walks he has done about the country lecturing on teetotalism and selling his booklet A View from the Servant's Hall, chopping wood, picking oakum etc. to pay his way; asking if ARW would pay him to travel the country selling his (ARW's) book [Social Environment and Moral Progress] March 1913) and preaching "Personal Self Home Rule", Mr Crofton Gore of Bristol will give him a reference; a poem "Courage, Brother" setting out his personal rule of life; his pamphlet "Great Britons [sic] Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" which he proposes to sell with ARW's book; his great-grandfather's estate in Galway and Dublin; father's death from drink and mother's long life supported by her son; most poverty traceable to drink; apologies for the quality of his writing paper.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP573

From:
N. Robinson
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 January 1913
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/102
Summary:

An article about him in that day's Daily Telegraph, strongly disagreeing with ARW's apparent belief that a man's estate should be administered by the Government and that he should have no right to leave his money to his heirs.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP574

From:
Gerrit Pieter Rouffaer
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 January 1913
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/103(1)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/103(2)
Summary:

Congratulating ARW on reaching his 90th birthday; praising ARW's Malay Archipelago he read while on an ethnographic expedition in Malaysia in 1911; would like to visit ARW later in the year.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP579

From:
Russell, Francis Albert Rollo & Russell, Gertrude Ellen Cornelia (née Joachim) & Russell, Margaret & Russell, John
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 January 1913
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/108(1)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/108(2)
Summary:

Sending congratulations and good wishes on ARW's 90th birthday.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP580

From:
Scott, Dukinfield Henry & Scott, Henderina
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 January 1913
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/109
Summary:

Congratulating ARW on reaching his 90th birthday.

Contributor:
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WCP581

From:
Henderina Scott
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 January 1913
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/110
Summary:

Congratulating ARW on reaching his 90th birthday.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP583

From:
Thomas Shepheard
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 January 1913
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/112
Summary:

Congratulating ARW on reaching his 90th birthday.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP588

From:
Suslin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 January 1913
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/117
Summary:

Sent on behalf of many Americans congratulating ARW on reaching his 90th birthday.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP589

From:
Joseph Wilson Swan
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 January 1913
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/118
Summary:

Congratulating ARW on reaching his 90th birthday.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP590

From:
Arnold D. Taylor
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 January 1913
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/119
Summary:

Congratulating ARW on reaching his 90th birthday, with news of Taylor's dealings with landlords and efforts to improve the housing of the poor in Padstowe, articles in The Daily News & Leader by Harold Spender; anecdote about a large family living in one room where the mother was giving birth and the father suffering from pleurisy, in a house surrounded by uncultivated land which could provided work and housing; Railway strike; "Knot" strike; plight of agricultural workers.

Contributor:
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WCP3324

From:
Frederick Moy Thomas
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 January 1913
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46442 ff. 190
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP4623

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
[8?] January 1913
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 281
Summary:

Thanks Meldola for his congratulations.

Contributor:
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WCP593

From:
Edgar Alcock-Rush
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 January 1913
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/122
Summary:

Congratulating ARW on his 90th birthday.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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