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WCP4363

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
20? February 1889
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 16
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 16
Summary:

Sending draft for corrections.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP6957

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
22 February 1889
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4364

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
22 February 1889
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 17
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 17
Summary:

More drafts. About his knowledge of the spiritual world. Ideas about sexual selection.

Contributor:
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WCP3925

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Botting Hemsley
Date:
24 February 1889
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: HEM/1/2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4365

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
3 March 1889
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 18
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 18
Summary:

About ill health, debate in the Pall Mall Gazette and Crookes' experiments in spiritualism.

Contributor:
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WCP3376

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Frederick Orridge Macmillan
Date:
10 March 1889
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 55221 ff. 22-23
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3377

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Frederick Orridge Macmillan
Date:
12 March 1889
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 55221 ff. 24-25
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3607

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Deacon Girdlestone
Date:
7 April 1889
Source of text:
Jeremy Norman and Co. (bookseller)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP202

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.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3700

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Deacon Girdlestone
Date:
27 May 1889
Source of text:
Bancroft Library, University of California: BANC MSS 86/122 z
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4366

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
28 May 1889
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 19
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 19
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 217-218]
Summary:

About offer of DCL, which he has declined. "I have a profound distaste for all public ceremonials." Details about ill health, house move, and his work. Wishes to be left "in peaceful obscurity." Doesn't like crowds.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4617

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
[2?] June 1889
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 275
Summary:

Informs Meldola they have found a new home and will be moving soon to Dorset.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4367

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
2 June 1889
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 20
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 218]
Summary:

If DCL gets offered again, will accept. "I feel myself too much of an amateur in Nat. His, and altogether too ignorant ... to receive honours from a great University .. . left school (a bad one) at 14." About Mr. Edwards and his butterfly collection. Criticises Bates' classification of butterflies.

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WCP4368

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
5 June 1889
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 21
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 21
Summary:

Has written to Professor Price, about DCL. Thanks for volume of Weismann's Essays.

Contributor:
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WCP1

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
9 June 1889
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/1
Summary:

New house at Parkstone, Dorset; marking examination papers; packing fossils and birds eggs; spiritualism.

Contributor:
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WCP1768

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Patrick Geddes
Date:
10 June 1889
Source of text:
Strathclyde University Archives: T-GED 9/38
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP3826

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Nicholson
Date:
17 June 1889
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC English Letters 1857-1900 Vol. 104
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5517

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Henry Edwards
Date:
18 June 1889
Source of text:
West Virginia State Archives: William Henry Edwards Collection (MS 79-2), Correspondence 23
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP6805

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Isabella Beecher Hooker
Date:
18 June 1889
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3788

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Lester Frank Ward
Date:
[18] [June] 1889
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University: Ms. 90.23, Series I, Subseries E
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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