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WCP4262

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Stevens
Date:
1 December 1856
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1857). [Letter from Alfred R. Wallace dated 1 Dec. 1856, Macassar; communicated by Samuel Stevens]. Zoologist : 15 (179): 5652-5657
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WCP5580

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Wallace, John & Wallace (née Webster), Mary Elizabeth Podger
Date:
6 December 1856
Source of text:
California Historical Society
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WCP365

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Frances ("Fanny") Sims (née Wallace)
Date:
10 December 1856
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/40
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 64]
Summary:

Arrival of letters from home; birth of first niece or nephew; expense of Sims's rent and financial burden to his mother; departure for Aru in two days time; diet on Aru, list of food stores to be taken, scarcity of fowl, will eat Birds of Paradise and Kangaroo; friends and family; Eliza Roberts's moustache.

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WCP4746

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Stevens
Date:
10 March 1857
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1857). [Letter from Alfred R. Wallace dated 10 March 1857, Dobbo, Aru Islands, and 15 May, Dobbo; to Samuel Stevens and communicated by him to the ESL meeting of 5 Oct. 1857]. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London : 1856-1857 : 91-93
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WCP1839

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 May 1857
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 1-4
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 129-131]
  • Darwin, F. (1909). Some letters from Charles Darwin to Alfred Russel Wallace. Christ's College Magazine: 23(70): 214-231 [pp. 214-217]
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WCP3561

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
August 1857
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
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WCP4080

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27] September 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 47: 145
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WCP1532

From:
James Brooke
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
31 October 1857
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/9/32
  • Wallace, A. R. (1869). In: The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, With Studies of Man and Nature. Vol. 1. London: Macmillan & Co. [p. 98]
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WCP4747

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Stevens
Date:
20 December 1857
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1858). [Letter from Alfred R. Wallace dated 20 Dec. 1857, Amboyna; communicated by Samuel Stevens]. Zoologist : 16 (191-192): 6120-6124
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WCP1840

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 December 1857
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 5-8
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 131-133]
  • Darwin, F. (1909). Some letters from Charles Darwin to Alfred Russel Wallace. Christ's College Magazine: 23(70): 214-231 [pp. 217-219]
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WCP4756

From:
[Charles Robert?] [Darwin?]
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[1858?]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP7/9
Summary:

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WCP7215

From:
[Charles Robert] [Darwin]
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[1858?]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London: MS 180
Summary:

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WCP366

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
[4 Jan. 1858 & 25 Jan. 1858]
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/41
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/72
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418384
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 65-68]
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 184-185]
Summary:

Receipt of mail from home including letters from Bates and Darwin; cleaning and packing of collections from Aru; detailed account of numbers, types and locations of insects collected, including first serious collection of very small beetle species (Staphylinidae etc) at Macassar; comparison of data sent by Bates with his own; reaction to ARW's paper "On the succession of species", approving letter from Darwin; benefit of Darwin's proposed publication on species and varieties; boundary between two distinct faunas in Malay Archipelago; proposed expeditions to Gilolo island [Halmahera] and New Guinea; advantages of Amboyna as a base; battles of Balaclava and Inkerman; Britain - India meeting [British rule in India]; insects in the Andes.

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WCP7107

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[March] 1858
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1858). On the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type. In: Darwin, C. R. & Wallace, A. R. On the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology : 3 (9): 45-62 [pp. 53-62]
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WCP6599

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Stevens
Date:
March 1858
Source of text:
Anon. (1859). Extracts from correspondence, notices, &c. [Including extracts of letters from Alfred R. Wallace to Samuel Stevens dated March & 2 September 1858, Ternate]. Ibis : 1 (1): 111-116 [pp. 112-113]
Summary:

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WCP367

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Frederick Bates
Date:
2 March 1858
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/42
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418388
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 69-70]
Summary:

Geodephaga species, commenting on notes made by F. Bates in a letter received a month previously; variation of entomological species; species of Catascopus sent to Saunders; habits of Cicindelidae; theory of colours of insect species; planned expedition to northern Celebes; plans to write a Coleoptera Malayana; disgraceful state of current publishing in entomology, comments on particular works.

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WCP2024

From:
James Motley
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 May 1858
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 2-3
Summary:

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WCP3562

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
September 1858
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
Summary:

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WCP4274

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Stevens
Date:
2 September 1858
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1859). Extracts from a letter of Mr. A. R. Wallace to Mr. S. Stevens. Zoologist : 17 (200-201): 6409-6413
Summary:

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WCP368

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Sims (née Wallace), Frances ("Fanny") & Sims, Thomas
Date:
6 September 1858
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/43
Summary:

The Sims's business, George Silk's marriage plans; sending Dumas' La Reine Margot; Claudet's stereoscope; photographs by Riglander and Fry; The Family Herald; speeches by Spurjeon.

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