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From:
David Wedderburn
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
27 December 1880
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP18/34
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP18/34
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP18/34
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
2 November 1886
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/3
Summary:

His first public lecture, rehearsals at Loughton and Farncombe useful, cut sections following advice of Mr Marshall, enclosing a newspaper and press cuttings (not present), report on lecture brief because today is election day; tour along Hudson and to West Point Military college with Mr Browne, spectacular scenery including basalt cliffs "The Palisades" along the river (with ink sketch of cliffs with a sailing boat on the river below); colourful autumn foliage; details of hotel food including "shaker apple-sauce"; tram cars in Boston; meeting with Spiritualist doctor Nichols, invited to visit; plans to visit botanist Asa Gray at Cambridge tomorrow; discovery of a chess club and plans to play.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
[December] [1886]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/8
Summary:

A séance at which he observed the ghosts of an Indian man and a baby; travel by sleeping-car from Baltimore; white and black populations in Boston and Baltimore.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
15 January 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/14
Summary:

Detailed description of a séance in Boston at which spirits including those of an American Indian and a baby apparently materialised; another séance at which spirits of ARW's Australian cousin Algernon Wilson and a woman who had met ARW at Kate Cook's apparently materialised; floral decorations at a dinner in Boston hosted by John M Forbes with guests including Asa Gray, O W Holmes and James Russell Lowell, sending Violet a menu; sending a poem suitable for reciting cut from a magazine; beauty of the city of Washington; lack of lecture engagements, may go to Canada; letter to be forwarded to Violet's aunt Fanny (Sims).

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
12 February 1887
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/17(1)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/17(2)
Summary:

Enclosing press cuttings (not present) apparently reporting a social occasion hosted by spiritualist Mrs Hooker, sister of Henry Ward Beecher and Mrs Beecher Stowe, at which ARW was introduced to about 50 people; lectures to local Anthropological societies; lack of paying lectures, if none booked in California will not be able to afford to go there as fare is £50; only two forthcoming engagements in Canada; spending time visiting Museums and libraries and writing for American newspapers and for Harris; expense of hotel; changeable weather; detailed description of the "most beautiful" Capitol building and comparison with British House of Commons; instructions to send letters via agent Williams; hopes Violet is reading and studying well.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
16 March 1887
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/20(1)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/20(2)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/20(3)
Summary:

From Niagara Falls (Canada), describing the partly frozen falls and surrounding area; ferns entirely absent, probably taken by tourists, every rock and stump covered with (carved) names.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
17 April 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/25
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
16 May 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/31
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
24 June 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/35
Summary:

The weather and the seasons and that ARW has not seen a single place he should like to live in. He writes of "Big Trees" including Redwoods and tells of his plans to visit Santa Cruz and Lake Tahoe before coming home in late August. ARW also mentions that he has been lecturing on Spiritualism in San Francisco.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
[1889]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/5
Summary:

ARW marking exam papers; Violet's expenses and studies; family matters.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
16 May 1889
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/1
Summary:

Inspection of houses and Violet's education and expenses.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
30 June 1889
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/2
Summary:

Violet's studies; work in garden; various visitors.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
12 October 1889
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/3
Summary:

ARW's forthcoming lecture in Liverpool; gardening; her brother William's affairs.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
28 November 1889
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/4
Summary:

ARW's lectures at Liverpool, York and Darlington; award of DCL from Oxford; dining with the Hookers; Violet's studies.

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