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WCP44

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
16 March 1902
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/44
Summary:

Recommended treatment if William contracts small-pox; progress of house-building; beginning autobiography; writing Astronomy chapter for new edition of Wond. Cent (ARW, The Wonderful Century: Its Successes and Failures, 1898); Macmillan request for reprint of Malay Archipelago.

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WCP3211

From:
Augustine Lempriere Foulkes
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 March 1902
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 ff. 235-236
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP45

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
23 March 1902
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/45
Summary:

Progress of garden and house-building, sending William a report on Acetylene generators.

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WCP46

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
30 March 1902
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/46
Summary:

Progress of house-building; gift of garden plants from Italy from Sir Thomas Hanbury.

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WCP6902

From:
Benjamin Kidd
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 April 1902
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library
  • Cambridge University Library
  • Cambridge University Library
  • Cambridge University Library
  • Cambridge University Library
  • Cambridge University Library
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP3990

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Francis James Bennett
Date:
5 April 1902?
Source of text:
Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery: Benjamin Harrison Archive, Volume 25
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP47

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
6 April 1902
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/47
Summary:

Receipt of plants from Italy; progress of house-building and garden; wages of labourers; cost of materials; arrival of Miss Buckton, a paying guest; William's sister Violet; encloses letter from the Cape (not present).

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WCP48

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
13 April 1902
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/48
Summary:

Gardening work at Broadstone; visitors at Broadstone; progress of house-building; William's holidays; sister Violet at home; Miss Buckton.

Contributor:
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WCP49

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
20 April 1902
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/49
Summary:

Progress of house-building and garden; visit to Corfe with Ma (William's mother, Annie Wallace) sister Violet and Miss Buckton.

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WCP174

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
27 April 1902
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/177
Summary:

Forwarding of a sextant and book, suggests William takes readings and compares results with Ordnance Survey map, gives detailed instructions for surveying fields and boundaries; progress of house building, walls and ceiling joists, expects roof to go on in a month; Bingo? unwell so has done no digging; Greenhouse leaks; pond filled and red water lilies planted, plans to exchange water plants with a nurseryman in Christchurch [Dorset]; glad William has met more Socialists, encloses letter from a Socialist correspondent (unnamed, letter not present).

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WCP50

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
4 May 1902
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/50
Summary:

Progress of house-building and garden; building costs; fossilised animal skull found when digging, sketch enclosed (not present); many visitors to the house; William's sister Violet.

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WCP51

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
11 May 1902
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/51
Summary:

Sketch enclosed (not present) of animal skull found in garden; furniture for house; Ma (William's mother, Annie Wallace) and sister Violet; progress of house-building.

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WCP52

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
20 May 1902
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/52
Summary:

William's holiday at Keswick; visit to Broadstone with Ma (William's mother, Annie Wallace) and Olive Casey; aquatic plants for garden arrived from America; slow progress in house-building; Conan Doyle's "Hound story" disappointing; awful West Indian volcanic eruption (Mount Pelee, Martinique, 8 May 1902).

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WCP330

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
25 May 1902
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/129
Summary:

Visits to Broadstone several times a week, planting of water-lilies in [Broadstone] garden pond, progress of building cellar, furnace, and fireplace, "Monogram" for front chimney; merits of different types of wood panel, details to be arranged with Mr Curtis Senior.

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WCP53

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
25 May 1902
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/53
Summary:

Progress of house-building; William's holiday at Keswick, Mount Skiddaw; offer from a doctor to lease Corfe View.

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WCP331

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
4 June 1902
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/130
Summary:

Wells and cesspools; progress of building work (at Broadstone); problems with his eyesight, occulists prescription for new glasses to correct double vision; woods being planted with wildflowers; Conveyance (of Broadstone property) now signed and land paid for.

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WCP175

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
8 June 1902
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/178
Summary:

Progress of house building; 3 chimneys up, Percy (Curtis) proud of appearance of roof's gables, hips and dormers, felting and tiling to be done; annoying delays in fitting window frames; rough calculation of 400 feet of water piping, good book on hot water supply by Mr Dye; choosing fixtures and fittings for kitchen and bathroom from Spring? and Marten of Stratford catalogue; electric bells to be fitted; suggests William might find books on surveying in old Newcastle bookshops.

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WCP54

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
15 June 1902
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/54
Summary:

House-building; garden; colour cure for sore eyes; final corrections to Ms of new edition of Wonderful Century.

Contributor:
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WCP1476

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
3 July 1902
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/276
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 109
Summary:

ARW thanks C. R. for abstracts on "hanging valleys". ARW mentions his theory of seed migration through the air and is looking for evidence. Enquires if C. R. has geological survey work in Cornwall, or has he retired. ARW is building a house at Broadstone "on a very pretty bit of land".

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WCP5140

From:
[unknown person]
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 July 1902
Source of text:
University of Reading, Special Collections: MS3280 Letter Book 36 - 20th January 1902 to 28th August 1902 p. 761
Summary:

No summary available.

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