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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Wallace
Date:
11 January 1840
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/6
Summary:

The Penny Post, including a poem on the subject; John's membership of the Literary Society; Chartist trials at Monmouth; description of lodgings and Mr and Mrs Wright.

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From:
John Wallace
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
March 1853
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/96/9
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
Summary:

Will answer some of your questions. ‘I’ve quite given up on making a fortune in California;” but am financially comfortable, will not return to live in England. Was just elected Superintendent and Chief Engineer of our water company, can have the job as long as I want it. Company has provided a horse, “frequently have to ride 25 or 50 miles per day on rough mountain roads” to maintain water system. Doing good business, will soon be out of debt and into profits. Gives specifications of five mile long water flume, and asks family to check his estimates of daily flow. . Will be able to pay back loans soon.

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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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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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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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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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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Wallace
Date:
20 April 1855
Source of text:
California Historical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Wallace
Date:
2 January 1863
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/54
Summary:

Darwin's Origin of Species; ARW's discovery of the principle of natural selection; work on collections from Malay Archipelago, collector still employed there; possibility of engaging a collector in Sandwich Islands; 1862 London International Exhibition; marriage; nephews; American civil war; sending photos of himself.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Wallace
Date:
25 May 1869
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/59
Summary:

Probate [of his mother's will] and payment of Wallace family legacies with details of amounts; sister Fanny's finances; Thomas Sims's business; loss of money through investments; details of annual domestic expenditure; comparative cost of living in London and the country; sales of Malay Archipelago; application for museum position; request for seeds of wild Californian plants; children, ARW's daughter, now 4 months old, named Violet Isabel.

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From:
John Wallace
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
May 1870
Source of text:
Wallace, J. (1871). [Extracts of letters from John Wallace about horned toads and rattlesnakes]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London : 39 (1): 1-2
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
John Wallace
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
October 1870
Source of text:
Wallace, J. (1871). [Extracts of letters from John Wallace about horned toads and rattlesnakes]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London : 39 (1): 1-2 [p. 2]
Summary:

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From:
John Wallace
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[1875]
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1875). In: On Miracles and Modern Spiritualism. Three Essays . London: James Burns. [pp. 191-192]
Summary:

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From:
John Wallace
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[1876?]
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1877). Glacial drift in California. Nature : 15 (378): 274-275
Summary:

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From:
John Wallace
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 December 1878
Source of text:
California Historical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
John Wallace
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[1891?]
Source of text:
  • Wallace, A. R. (1891). [LTTE]. Light (London): 11(533): 133-134
  • Wallace, A. R. (1891). [LTTE]. Light (London): 11(533): 133-134 [p. 133]
Summary:

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From:
John Wallace
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
30 June 1892
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/86(2)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/86(3)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/86(1)
Summary:

Letter and MS in John Wallace's hand, headed "The Work problem 50 years ago by a Worker" with notes on the wages and conditions for builders' labourers in London from 1835-1845. The letter comments on his MS and the problem of alcoholism in the working classes in the past.

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From:
John Wallace
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
18 November 1893
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/87
Summary:

Acknowledgement on October 1 of ARW's letter dated September 15 reporting the death of their sister Fanny; work on connecting houses to a sewerage system emptying into the San Joaquin River, expense of board of health building requirements; general economic depression due to the Democratic administration; ARW's reaction in his letter of August 23 to John's views on the theories of the Earth's crust.

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