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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[before 1897]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 306
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Rudyard Kipling
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1897-1902
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/9/29
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
William James Stillman
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1897-1901
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46442 ff. 238-239
  • Natural History Museum, London: WP/17/12
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
1897-1913
Source of text:
  • Royal Entomological Society: RES 32/24
  • Royal Entomological Society: RES 32/24
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Frederick ("Fred") Birch
Date:
1897-1900?
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418458
Summary:

Describes parts of the country famous for their wild flowers, including the Vale of Neath and High Force in Teesdale. Looks forward to Birch's description of his Welsh tour and writes, "I love Wales more than any part of our country. I lived at Neath 5 or 6 years and I know nothing more beautiful than the Vale of Neath right up to the grand Brecknock Beacons".

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[Violet Isabel] [Wallace]
Date:
[1897]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/132
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
James Marchant
Date:
1897
Source of text:
Abe Books (bookseller)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
5 January 1897
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 189
Summary:

Comments on Meldola's address on variation, with specific points.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
8 January 1897
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 190
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 70-71]
Summary:

Discusses Darwin's and Weismann's views of heredity of acquired characteristics.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
16 January 1897
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 60
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 60
Summary:

ARW will sign the form proposing C. Lloyd Morgan as a member of the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
18 January 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/80
Summary:

Her expenses; her brother William [sailing for America]; Century (magazine); whale on beach at Boscombe; ARW review of book on instinct by Lloyd Morgan for Natural Science; Grandpa's (William Mitten) purchase of land.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Peter MacOwan
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
20 January 1897
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC 190 folio 1241
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
20 January 1897
Source of text:
University of California, Santa Barbara: MSS 28: Box 6: 12, Wallace, Alfred Russel
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Ernst Johann Otto Hartert
Date:
21 January 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM TM1-31-9-132
Summary:

Thanks for sending papers on birds of Baly [sic], Lombok, Tomboro, Sumba & other islands. Pleased to find that despite many additions to birds on Bali + Lombok "the broad facts of distribution as indicated by myself remain almost as marked as ever".

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
24 January 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/81
Summary:

Sending her birthday greetings; and re. her brother William and Mac sailing [for America] from Liverpool on March 3rd.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
9 February 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/22
Summary:

Includes a recent journey by William; Mac's health; William's preparations for a voyage to America, advice on his visiting Meldola and spending Sharpe's present of money; suggestion he visit the House of Commons to observe a session, enclosing cards (not present) of 2 members of the L.N. (Land Nationalisation) Society; regards to the Hayward's.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
John Clavell Mansel-Pleydell (formerly Mansel)
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
11 February 1897
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 ff. 24-25
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
14 February 1897
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 61
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 61
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 71-72]
Summary:

About Poulton's British Association address. Geological Ideas.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Coxe
Date:
March? [1897]
Source of text:
  • Jeremy Norman and Co. (bookseller)
  • Jeremy Norman and Co. (bookseller)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
8 March 1897
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 55221 ff. 30-31
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project