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WCP3555

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
[3] [February] [1854]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
Summary:

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WCP3556

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
4 February 1854
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
Summary:

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WCP4306

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Alexander Bailie-Hamilton
Date:
8 February 1854
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
Summary:

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WCP3557

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
8 February 1854
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
Summary:

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WCP3558

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
8 February 1854
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
Summary:

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WCP1289

From:
John Wallace
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
11 February 1854
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/96/15
  • California Historical Society
Summary:

One of a set of letters providing in-depth descriptions John Wallace's life in the gold mining town of Columbia, California, building a system to bring water to gold mining operations in the town.

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WCP4309

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Wodehouse
Date:
23 February 1854
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: Letter Book Nov 1850 - Nov 1859 f.127-128
Summary:

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WCP3648

From:
John Wodehouse
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
24 February 1854
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 FOREIGN OFFICE
Summary:

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WCP3643

From:
John Wodehouse
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 March 1854
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 FOREIGN OFFICE
Summary:

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Contributor:
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WCP352

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Charles Silk
Date:
[19 & 26 Mar. 1854]
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/27
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 45-47]
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 171-174]
Summary:

Journey to Alexandria; life on board ship, fellow travellers, anti-cholera precautions at Gibraltar, Cairo, the desert, Alexandria, donkey drivers.

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WCP353

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Mary Ann Wallace (née Greenell)
Date:
30 April 1854
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/28
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 47-48]
Summary:

Arrival in Singapore; town and population; Bukit Tima (Timah) Mission; butterflies; boxes due on ship Eliza Thornton; broken watch; instructions to Samuel Stevens.

Contributor:
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WCP4259

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[Samuel] [Stevens]
Date:
9 May 1854
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1854). [Letter from Alfred R. Wallace dated 9 May 1854, Singapore]. Zoologist : 12 (142): 4395-4397
Summary:

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WCP354

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Mary Ann Wallace (née Greenell)
Date:
28 May 1854
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/29
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 48-49]
Summary:

Daily tasks with insect collections; sending a box of beetles to Stevens; plans to go to Borneo; Charles's progress as assistant; friends and family in England.

Contributor:
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WCP4270

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
June 1854
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1854). Letters from the Eastern Archipelago. The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Science, and Art : 1961 : 739
Summary:

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WCP355

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Mary Ann Wallace (née Greenell)
Date:
[2] July 1854
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/30
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 49-51]
Summary:

Sea journey from Singapore; living conditions in Malacca; employment of servants; French missionaries; Chinese farmers; Charles Allen's progress as assistant; birds and monkeys; plans to visit Cambodia.

Contributor:
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WCP611

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
September 1854
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/138
  • Wallace, A. R. (1854). Letter from Singapore. The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Science, and Art: 1978: 1077-1078
Summary:

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Contributor:
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WCP357

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Mary Ann Wallace (née Greenell)
Date:
30 September 1854
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/32
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 51-52]
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 176-178]
Summary:

Attack of fever in Malacca, quinine treatment; insects and birds collected in Malacca; ascent of Mount Ophir; arrival of post including and letters from Adelaide, Australia; arrival of newspapers, instruments, repaired watch and food from England; basket of food spoiled by insects, better to use soldered tin box; visit to Sir James Brooke; plans to visit Sarawak; friends and family; continued carelessness of assistant Charles.

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WCP358

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Charles Silk
Date:
15 October 1854
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/33
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/33
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 52-53]
  • Hooker, W. J. (1855). Extracts of a letter From Mr. Wallace [dated 10 Oct. 1854, Singapore]. Journal of Botany: 7(7): 200-209
Summary:

Sailing for Sarawak next day; arranging and cataloguing collection of 6,000 specimens - birds, insects and shells; impossibility of collecting plants for William Hooker; pleasure at quotation by Latham; any news of Sebastopol; wanting copies of Punch; expedition to Mount Ophir.

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WCP3554

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
1 November 1854
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: JMS 8/17
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP4260

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[Samuel] [Stevens]
Date:
25 November 1854
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1855). The entomology of Malacca. Zoologist : 13 (149): 4636-4639
Summary:

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