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WCP6612

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Philipp Frend
Date:
4 January 1898
Source of text:
RR Auction (auction)
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP4802

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Matilda? Wilson (née King)?
Date:
9 January 1898
Source of text:
John Greenell Wilson (private collection)
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP4786

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Stephens Salt
Date:
11 January 1898
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: Alfred Russel Wallace Collection MSS.B.W15a
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP1560

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
E. Macdonald
Date:
23 January 1898
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP2/6/3/2/2
Summary:

Thanking Miss Macdonald for a gift of shortbread on his birthday, which he unfortunately cannot eat but others will appreciate. [copied by Miss E? Macdonald and sent to Violet Wallace from Broomhill, Sheffield 19 Jan 1914].

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WCP302

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
23 January 1898
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/101
Summary:

Violet's salary; hopes Vaccination book out in a few days, problem with diagrams; Century (The Wonderful Century) MS finished, proof reader needed, Mrs Fisher's suggestions for poetical chapter headings; Mrs Fisher's [eyesight]; Bellamy's Equality; letter from Mrs Wallace of Stockton (Violet's aunt Mary) re Violet's brother William; William's letters.

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WCP303

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
25 January 1898
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/102
Summary:

A letter from her brother William in America commenting on phrenological analysis of his photo.

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WCP4410

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
27 January 1898
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 63
Summary:

Has sent letter to Royal Society secretary requesting the suspension this year of Professor Lloyd Morgan certificate.

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WCP5477

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
1 February 1898
Source of text:
Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution: MSS 001526 A
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP304

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
4 February 1898
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/103
Summary:

Letter from her brother William; Violet's career and salary.

Contributor:
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WCP4126

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edmund William Gosse
Date:
7 February 1898
Source of text:
Brotherton Library, University of Leeds: Gosse Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP4411

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
13 February 1898
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 64
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 64
Summary:

About mimicry - criticising theory of "similar conditions".

Contributor:
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WCP1838

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[William Turner] [Thiselton-Dyer]
Date:
14 February 1898
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL RP 7142
Summary:

Offering Kew an orchid if they do not already have it, the Umbrella Epidendrum (Epidendrum umbellatum).

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WCP305

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
16 February 1898
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/104
Summary:

Sending his book on vaccination for her and Miss Macdonald to read; instructions for packing her books; Century book (The Wonderful Century) about to be printed, Mr Mott asked to write poetical headings; Violet [to work in] London school.

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WCP4128

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edmund William Gosse
Date:
17 February 1898
Source of text:
Brotherton Library, University of Leeds: Gosse Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP306

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
22 February 1898
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/105
Summary:

Her [move to] London and resignation from current job; The Wonderful Century, verses and mottos wanted for chapter headings, Longfellow, Mr Mott; design wanted for cover; [Mr Chant] to read proofs; Mrs Fisher; Eucalyptus in garden damaged by snow; book on vaccination and letter from her brother William sent last week.

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WCP1436

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
24 February 1898
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 44526 ff. 252-253
  • American Philosophical Society: Alfred Russel Wallace Collection MSS.B.W15a
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/236
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP1706

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Oliver Joseph Lodge
Date:
8 March 1898
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: SPR. MS 35/2732
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 74-75]
Summary:

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WCP307

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
17 March 1898
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/106
Summary:

Her career [failure to get work in London], proposing she spend a year in Germany learning German, offering £50 towards expenses.

Contributor:
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WCP6810

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Ms Morgan
Date:
21 March 1898
Source of text:
Birmingham City Archives: MS 135
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP1469

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
26 March 1898
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/269
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 31
Summary:

ARW returns a draft report on the caves with one suggestion; attempts to explain the absence of cave fauna. ARW suggests submitting the draft with those remarks to Sir W Flower and to let him decide on the nature of the report.

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