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RS-MM-001398

From:
Thomas Edward Thorpe
To:
Joseph Priestley
Date:
1 February 1904
Source of text:
MM/18/143, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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WCP703

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Frederick ("Fred") Birch
Date:
1 February 1904?
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418495
Summary:

Advises about Birch's proposed expedition to Brazil, urging him not to go via Jamaica. Also discusses a forthcoming visit from Birch to Broadstone.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP705

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Frederick ("Fred") Birch
Date:
February 1904?
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418499
Summary:

More advice about Birch's proposed expeditions. There is a direct shipping line from Glasgow to the West Indies. Favours going via Trinidad.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4916

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Ernest Marriott
Date:
2 February 1904
Source of text:
  • Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia: Letters by Alfred Russel Wallace to Ernest Marriott (MSS 2405)
  • Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia: Letters by Alfred Russel Wallace to Ernest Marriott (MSS 2405)
  • Wallace, A. R. ([c.1930]). In: Edgar Allan Poe: A Series of Seventeen Letters Concerning Poe's Scientific Erudition in Eureka and His Authorship of Leonainie. New York: Privately published. [pp. 12-13]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP6003

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Thomas Henry Thomas
Date:
3 February 1904
Source of text:
Cardiff Central Library: CC 4.430/14c
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP704

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Frederick ("Fred") Birch
Date:
5 February 1904?
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418497
Summary:

Advice on the importance of having an agent to handle the sale of specimens. Private buyers and museums are possible clients. Birch should check if bird skeletons are required.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4917

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Ernest Marriott
Date:
8 February 1904
Source of text:
  • Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia: Letters by Alfred Russel Wallace to Ernest Marriott (MSS 2405)
  • Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia: Letters by Alfred Russel Wallace to Ernest Marriott (MSS 2405)
  • Wallace, A. R. ([c.1930]). In: Edgar Allan Poe: A Series of Seventeen Letters Concerning Poe's Scientific Erudition in Eureka and His Authorship of Leonainie. New York: Privately published. [pp. 13-14]
Summary:

Discusses Edgar Allen Poe's poem "Leonainie" and the alleged imitation of it.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3464

From:
John George Piddington
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 February 1904
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 326-329
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 326-329
Summary:

Envelope states: "Piddington, about Hodgson and Mrs Thompson. And on extreme prevalency of imposture!".

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP85

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
12 February 1904
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/85
Summary:

ARW's new will; autobiography; sitting for portrait; dubious authorship of poem "Leonainie"; Fred Birch preparing for trip to British Guiana. On the back of folio 2 is a poem headed "The outcast", initialled "William Greenell Wallace".

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP706

From:
Frederick ("Fred") Birch
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 February [1904]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418356
Summary:

Relates his impressions on returning to Oxford. Professor Poulton was exceedingly kind to him and Birch was able to make many sketches of insects.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4918

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Ernest Marriott
Date:
15 February 1904
Source of text:
  • Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia: Letters by Alfred Russel Wallace to Ernest Marriott (MSS 2405)
  • Wallace, A. R. ([c.1930]). In: Edgar Allan Poe: A Series of Seventeen Letters Concerning Poe's Scientific Erudition in Eureka and His Authorship of Leonainie. New York: Privately published. [pp. 15-16]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP708

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Frederick ("Fred") Birch
Date:
16 February 1904?
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418501
Summary:

Gives advice on dealers and the advantages and disadvantages of dealing with personal dealers such as Druce, Janson, or Trevor compared to institutions such as the British Museum.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5230

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Rothenstein
Date:
19 February 1904
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University: MS Eng 1148 (1565)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP181

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
20 February 1904
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/184
Summary:

Writing recollections, has written chapter 2, on Usk, and now beginning chapter 1, on relations and ancestors, has lost William's notes made [of family gravestones] at Laleham, can William recall details; writing on James Whitcomb Riley, Poe and "Leonanie" for the Fortnightly, has written to American editors and biographers of Poe for information; injury to William's foot.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP7238

From:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 February 1904
Source of text:
Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

WCP632

From:
[unknown person]
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 February 1904
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP18/17
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1316

From:
Thomas Sims
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
26 February 1904
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/131
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/131
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP709

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Frederick ("Fred") Birch
Date:
28 February 1904
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418503
Summary:

Discusses terms of a proposed collecting contract with Mr. Janson, bird collections at Tring, and spiritualism.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4424

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
28 February 1904
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 77
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 77
Summary:

About Poulton's address, Darwin, Darwinism and Max Müller. Discusses ideas regarding fertility, variation and sexual selection.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3618

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
James D. Law
Date:
29 February 1904
Source of text:
RR Auction (auction)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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