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WCP68

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
19 December 1902
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/68
Summary:

Progress of house-building; William's sister Violet expected home tomorrow; debt; advance from Macmillan's; article ("Man's Place in the Universe") based on Wonderful Century written for New York Independent whose agent suggests a new book with royalties in advance; William's career prospects as electrical engineer in mines.

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WCP69

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
3 January 1903
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/69
Summary:

Electrical engineering in mines, suggests William contacts Geological Survey; road being made in front of house; Miss Scutt first visitor to house; ducklings and chickens reaction to water, William should read Lloyd Morgan's "Habit & Instinct"; Percy Curtis sends thanks for photos; letter enclosed from (Mr) Wareham (not present); books ARW has read; "Bounder" writing in The Clarion; William and walking companion should look for the "toad in the coal".

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WCP177

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
12 January 1903
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/180
Summary:

The 1902 Rede Lecture by Osborne Reynolds "On an inversion of ideas as to the structure of the Universe" - his explanation of gravity similar to Allen's; work on house and garden; reading books for material for his own book, [Man's place in the Universe] hopes to get it out by summer; William Greenell Wallace's business in Ipswich and London.

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WCP70

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
17 January 1903
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/70
Summary:

Progress of house-building, decoration, interior fittings, road and garden; photograph in Black and White [magazine] illustrates ARW article on relationship with Darwin; advice to William on electrical engineering in mines; remembrances to Mac; researching astronomy and physics for new book (Man's Place in the Universe); reading Eben Holden.

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WCP71

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
1 February 1903
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/71
Summary:

Domestic affairs; William's career prospects.

Contributor:
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WCP72

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
28 February 1903
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/72
Summary:

Domestic affairs; William's career prospects; progress of work on book and articles.

Contributor:
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WCP73

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
30 March 1903
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/73
Summary:

Domestic affairs; William's career prospects; progress of work on book and articles.

Contributor:
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WCP74

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
10 June 1903
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/74
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/74
Summary:

Progress of work on book, material on electrical measurement of starlight to be included.

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WCP75

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
15 June 1903
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/75
Summary:

Progress of work on book. Annotated in pencil, possibly in William's hand.

Contributor:
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WCP76

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
20 June 1903
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/76
Summary:

William's career prospects; progress of work on book.

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WCP77

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
22 June 1903
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/77
Summary:

Progress of work on book. Annotated in pencil, possibly in William's hand.

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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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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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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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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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WCP80

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
12 September 1903
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/80
Summary:

William's career prospects; visits from aunt Flora (Mitten) and others.

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WCP81

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
23 September 1903
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/81
Summary:

Domestic affairs; William's career; Old Carthusians; "The Bounder" column in The Clarion.

Contributor:
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WCP82

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
1 November 1903
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/82
Summary:

Domestic affairs, friends and family; book-writing finished, reviews in papers; reading Man's Position in the Universe by W. Sedgwick, Nature, "The Bounder"; British Guiana; William's career, spiritualism in Manchester.

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WCP83

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
13 November 1903
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/83
Summary:

Letter by ARW published in the Daily Mail of 12 Nov. in reply to Lodge, Wells and Ramsay.

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