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WCP4785

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Stephens Salt
Date:
26 September 1897
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: Alfred Russel Wallace Collection MSS.B.W15a
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5764

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 September 1897
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 236-237]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP418

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
28 September 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/4/12
Summary:

Visits from Mr Murray the spiritualist and Mrs Sconce, news that General Minchin, a chess player, to live nearby; visit to Poole library; gardening supplies; sent off to Mr Casson for Mrs D'Orsay; repairs to kitchen; delivery of Cooperative coal; new [visiting] cards; receipt of a letter from Rudyard Kipling expressing hope he can visit one day; Mr Linton's thanks to ARW and Mitten for [specimen of] grass.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

JHC952

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend James Digues de La Touche
Date:
30 September 1897
Source of text:
JDH/2/12 f.139-139a, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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WCP294

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
30 September 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/93
Summary:

Book on educational reformers including Rousseau; Brotherhood; Nunquam and Cartwel in The Clarion; news from her brother William in America; her salary and career, possibility of [renting] Walker's house for use as a kindergarten; Corfe View house; holidays in Switzerland.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4539

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
10 October 1897
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 191
Summary:

Thanks for seeds. Talk about his son, who has been working on an electric railway near Boston.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP295

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
10 October 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/94
Summary:

News from her brother William in America; her possible career and salary at Limpsfield; grandpa (William Mitten) finding a rare grass near Wareham, Dorset, Mr. Mansell-Playdell pleased; orchids; Violet's dress; Annie's desire to visit America. Addendum by Annie Wallace.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

JHC953

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend James Digues de La Touche
Date:
12 October 1897
Source of text:
JDH/2/12 f.140, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

RS-MM-001189

From:
Karl Pearson
To:
Arthur William Rucker
Date:
15 October 1897
Source of text:
MM/17/56, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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WCP296

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
22 October 1897
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/95
  • Smith, F. E. (1931). In: The Five Hundred Best English Letters. London: Cassell. [p. 791]
  • 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. 115-116]
Summary:

Bird behaviour; Violet's expenses and dental treatment; news from her brother William in America; books; The Arena, ARW, Dr Brett and General Dunn buying orchids; anti-vaccination chapter finished, considering publishing as a separate paper.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001209

From:
Edmond Halley
To:
Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society
Date:
25 October 1897
Source of text:
MM/17/76, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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WCP2762

From:
Conwy Lloyd Morgan
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 October 1897
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 27
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1251

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
31 October 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/205
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-M97-11-00

From:
Wilhelm Wiesbaden and Baldwin Spencer
To:
the general public
Date:
November 1897
Source of text:
E97/11925, unit 972, VPRS 3992/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

RS-MM-001217

From:
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
To:
Lord Rayleigh
Date:
8 November 1897
Source of text:
MM/17/84, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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WCP3163

From:
Gerald Massey
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 November 1897
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 f. 154
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP7200

From:
Edwyn Charles Reed
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 November 1897
Source of text:
Walter Reed (private collection)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000984

From:
William Bateson
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
11 November 1897
Source of text:
MM/15/93, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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WCP3883

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
Date:
12 November 1897
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: HNR/2/1/7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

JHC954

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend James Digues de La Touche
Date:
14 November 1897
Source of text:
JDH/2/12 f.141-141a, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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