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WCP6608

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
James Marchant
Date:
17 September 1897
Source of text:
Forum Auctions (auction)
Summary:

ARW replies to JM's request for the view held by most Spiritualists as to the Resurrection of Christ, and discusses the subject, "We look on all spiritualistic phenomena as natural phenomena". ARW states that there is interesting matter on this subject in Dr Crowell's Primitive Christianity and Modern Spiritualism, especially Vol. I, ch. XXII-XXV.

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WCP4820

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Augustin Frédéric Adolphe Hamon
Date:
21 September 1897
Source of text:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam: Hamon Papers
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP4785

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Stephens Salt
Date:
26 September 1897
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: Alfred Russel Wallace Collection MSS.B.W15a
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP418

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
28 September 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/4/12
Summary:

Visits from Mr Murray the spiritualist and Mrs Sconce, news that General Minchin, a chess player, to live nearby; visit to Poole library; gardening supplies; sent off to Mr Casson for Mrs D'Orsay; repairs to kitchen; delivery of Cooperative coal; new [visiting] cards; receipt of a letter from Rudyard Kipling expressing hope he can visit one day; Mr Linton's thanks to ARW and Mitten for [specimen of] grass.

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WCP294

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
30 September 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/93
Summary:

Book on educational reformers including Rousseau; Brotherhood; Nunquam and Cartwel in The Clarion; news from her brother William in America; her salary and career, possibility of [renting] Walker's house for use as a kindergarten; Corfe View house; holidays in Switzerland.

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WCP4539

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
10 October 1897
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 191
Summary:

Thanks for seeds. Talk about his son, who has been working on an electric railway near Boston.

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WCP295

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
10 October 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/94
Summary:

News from her brother William in America; her possible career and salary at Limpsfield; grandpa (William Mitten) finding a rare grass near Wareham, Dorset, Mr. Mansell-Playdell pleased; orchids; Violet's dress; Annie's desire to visit America. Addendum by Annie Wallace.

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WCP296

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
22 October 1897
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/95
  • Smith, F. E. (1931). In: The Five Hundred Best English Letters. London: Cassell. [p. 791]
  • Wallace, W. G. & Wallace, V. (1916). Part IV. Home Life. 103-138. In: Marchant, J. (Ed.). Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 115-116]
Summary:

Bird behaviour; Violet's expenses and dental treatment; news from her brother William in America; books; The Arena, ARW, Dr Brett and General Dunn buying orchids; anti-vaccination chapter finished, considering publishing as a separate paper.

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WCP1251

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
31 October 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/205
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP3883

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
Date:
12 November 1897
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: HNR/2/1/7
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP1252

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
16 November 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/206
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP297

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
24 November 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/96
Summary:

Clarion article on the Pantheon; the Marshall's; ARW drawing diagrams for engravings on anti-vaccination; Annie learning to ride tricycle; bicycles; books, author Ian Maclaren, Poole Library; news of Violet's brother William in America; family cats; new neighbours including Mr Oakley; interview for Bookman; ARW's head read by a phrenologist who also read the photographs of William, Mac, Nunquam (Robert Blatchford), and Mr Swinton; orchids from Burrell; new Argand candle; regards to Eleanor.

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WCP4540

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
26 November 1897
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 192
Summary:

About butterfly exhibition and Will's travels in America.

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WCP298

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
11 December 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/97
Summary:

Sending moss and flowers; finishing vaccination paper and diagrams; Eleanor's plans for Christmas.

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WCP299

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
16 December 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/98
Summary:

Acorns and a hedgehog; bill for flannelette; Florence; orchids wanted from A. H. Grimsditch, Liverpool; no news from her brother William.

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WCP4541

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
20 December 1897
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 193
Summary:

Questions about Professor Lippman's method of colour photography for his book on the century. More about his son, Will, who is working in Denver.

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WCP3713

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Michael Flürscheim
Date:
27 December 1897
Source of text:
Bancroft Library, University of California: BANC MSS 76/109 z
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP1778

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Benjamin Harrison
Date:
30 December 1897
Source of text:
Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery: Benjamin Harrison Archive, Volume 17, p.64
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP4542

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
30 December 1897
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 194
Summary:

Thanks for Meldola's explanation of Lippman's theory of colour photography, and discussion of this.

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