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WCP7224

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
? ? ?
Source of text:
Ebay (auction)
Summary:

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WCP829

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
February 1849
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/297
Summary:

ARW reports to friends his observations of Brazil after nine months exploring. At first disappointed, expected profusion of monkeys, hummingbirds, and parrots everywhere. “Not for several days...saw a single monkey or bird,” but soon learned “how and where to look.” Country is “surpassingly beautiful,” caught 500 different kinds of butterflies. Virgin forest “sublime and magnificent” with astonishing vegetation where “lurk the Onca [jaguar] & the Boa constrictor...and the Bell bird tolls his peal.” Describes streams and rivers; Climate “wonderfully uniform;” 30 different kinds of palm trees; large variety of fruits. Unalterably opposed to slavery. Even where he observed them treated well, notes they can be sold “like horses or dogs.” Country is booming and prosperous in both agriculture and commerce.

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WCP4750

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
19 October 1852
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1852). [LTTE from Alfred R. Wallace concerning the ship fire, dated 19 Oct. 1852]. Zoologist : 10 (119): 3641-3643
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Account for publication of “unfortunate accident that took place on my voyage home from South America.” On 2 July retrieved collection of birds, insects, reptiles, and fishes that had been left at Para while I traveled upriver. On 12th of July embarked in the “Helen” for London, still suffering from fever, with my collections and some live monkeys and birds. On 6th of August “smoke was discovered...and soon filled the cabin;” ship burst into flames and we had to abandon it for life boats. Natural history collections and live animals were completely lost; we steered for Bermuda, 700 miles away. After ten days at sea, almost starved, we were rescued by passing ship 200 miles off Bermuda. . Only things I saved were “my watch, drawings of fishes,” and some notes and journals. Had packed 50-foot leaf of Jupate palm (Oredoxia regia). Mr. Spruce and Mr. Bates were fine when last seen.

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WCP4270

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
June 1854
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1854). Letters from the Eastern Archipelago. The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Science, and Art : 1961 : 739
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WCP611

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
September 1854
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/138
  • Wallace, A. R. (1854). Letter from Singapore. The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Science, and Art: 1978: 1077-1078
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WCP4271

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
[December?] 1854
Source of text:
[Wallace, A. R.]. (1855). [Letter from Alfred R. Wallace dated 1854, Sarawak, Borneo]. The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Science, and Art : 2003 : 366
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WCP612

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
May 1855
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/139
  • Wallace, A. R. (1855). Borneo. The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Science, and Art: 2023: 683-684
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 53-56]
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 178]
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Describing the locality and people; thoughts on differences between "civilised" and "savage".

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WCP4748

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
November 1858
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1859). Remarks on enlarged coloured figures of insects. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London : 1858-1859 : 66-67
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WCP4761

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
June 1860
Source of text:
Anon. (1861). [Note describing Alfred R. Wallace's letters dated June 1860, Ceram]. Ibis : 3 (9): 118
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WCP3515

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
1862-1913
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 55221 f. 123
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WCP778

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
1862-1913
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418282
Summary:

About details relating to "revises", proofs etc of ARW's MS of an article that is about to appear.

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WCP809

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
1862-1913
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-396057
Summary:

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WCP1725

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
7 April 1862
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London: GB 0814 BADW
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WCP1585

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
24 May [1864]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP6/5/5(39)
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WCP4832

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
3 August 1868
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1868). To the Editor of the "Spiritual Magazine". The Spiritual Magazine : 3 : 432
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WCP1626

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
25 May 1869
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP18/37
Summary:

Handwritten declaration by ARW, acting in official capacity as attorney to his brother John Wallace in the matter of rental income arising from a property in Albany Street which formed part of the estate of Michael Webster, father-in-law of John Wallace.

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WCP4737

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
June 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: Alfred Russel Wallace Collection MSS.B.W15a
Summary:

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WCP5134

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
c. 1870
Source of text:
London Library, The: LL Archives, Autograph Letters, v2, p. 113
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WCP4998

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
1871
Source of text:
Anon. (1871). Literary notes. Academy : 2 (36): 512-513
Summary:

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WCP3946

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
3 February 1872
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London: MS 140a-37
Summary:

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