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WCP452

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
1 July 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/36
Summary:

Her success in letting the house; visit to Yosemite and Santa Cruz with his brother John to see big trees; swollen and ulcerated lip confining him to the house, plans to visit Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada when well; ferns from Santa Cruz sent to Miss Jekyll; Mr Marshall; problems with posting items from America; ARW's San Francisco lecture on spiritualism well attended and further offer from Chicago, Spiritualism pays better than Natural History; sending ferns from Yosemite; description of Sequoia sempervirens seen in the Redwood forests and exotic plants in California; California as a place to live.

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WCP4499

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
4 July 1887
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 151
Summary:

Asking if the British Association keep a list of lecture engagements, as ARW would like a few engagements for the coming winter.

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WCP454

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Mitten
Date:
10 July 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/38
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP455

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Mitten
Date:
15 July 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/39
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP456

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Mitten
Date:
31 July 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/40
Summary:

From ARW to his father-in-law instructing he forward the enclosed information to Annie his wife about his movements and intentions regarding his returning home from his North American tour. ARW also describes his trip out the previous day to a primeval forest and the plant species he encountered.

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WCP457

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
31 July 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/41
Summary:

From ARW to his wife describing his week spent in the Rocky Mountains and celebrating the plant variety there. He remarks that the air was too dry for ferns. ARW states that Colorado Springs is the only place in America that it would be pleasant to live. He advises Annie that he will be leaving for home at once via Kingston and Quebec and sailing to Liverpool or Glasgow.

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WCP458

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
3 August 1887
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/42(1)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/42(2)
Summary:

In this letter ARW informs his wife when he is to leave Canada and when he expects to arrive in Liverpool. ARW suggests that they all go to the Lake District for a holiday where they have never been. Wales and Derbyshire are suggested as alternative destinations. ARW signs off saying he is going to the Thousand Islands.

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WCP3365

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Lubbock
Date:
12 September 1887
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 49678 C f. 102
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP6993

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
James S. Clark
Date:
17 September 1887
Source of text:
Newcastle University Library, Special Collections: SW/1/20/4, Spence Watson/Weiss Archive
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP845

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
22 September 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM DF932-1-56a
Summary:

Is indeed very sorry that anything in his article should be unfair by Flower; an accompanying letter to Nature explains ARW's meaning more fully. If Flower thinks there is anything else ARW ought to say, let him know his wishes and return the letter - if not please to post the letter to Nature where it will appear in the next issue.

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WCP1763

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Patrick Geddes
Date:
24 September 1887
Source of text:
Strathclyde University Archives: T-GED 9/15
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP3786

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Lester Frank Ward
Date:
25 September 1887
Source of text:
  • John Hay Library, Brown University: Ms. 90.23, Series I, Subseries E
  • Stern, B. J. (1935). Letters of Alfred Russel Wallace to Lester F. Ward. The Scientific Monthly: 40: 375-379 [pp. 377-378]
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP846

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
27 September 1887
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM DF932-1-55b
Summary:

Sent a short note yesterday to the editor of the Fortnightly hoping he might get it in the October number but fears it is too late. It takes a great deal to bring him to London now & has so many means of correspondence & other work during his absence in America that he fears he shall not be able to come to the Museum for some time, but will keep in mind Flower's kind offer "to show me your new arrangement".

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WCP4500

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
5 October 1887
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 152
Summary:

Enclosed ticket has been sent to ARW by Hampden. the Dialectical Society "are allowing him to expose his ignorance and absurdities." Will Meldola go and see what Hampden has to say? Busy with arrears of correspondence and reading, plus volume on Australasia. Problems with eyesight.

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WCP4067

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
10 October 1887
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/130
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP4350

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
20 October 1887
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 03
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 03
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 39]
Summary:

Thanks Poulton for the papers. Comments on their differences on colour theory.

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WCP4501

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
24 October 1887
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 153
Summary:

Will not be able to attend the "fungus foray", as have builders at work at home. Sorry that Meldola had a wasted evening with Hampden, thought the Dialectical Society meeting would lead to some "excellent fooling.".

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WCP4502

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
27 October 1887
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 154
Summary:

Can Violet stay with him at Meldola's, as she wishes to attend the Converzatione with her father?.

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WCP5621

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Francis ("Frank") Darwin
Date:
20 November 1887
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 39-40]
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP4351

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
20 November 1887
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 04
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 04
Summary:

Thanks for paper on pupae.

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