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WCP5634

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
8 July 1897
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 74]
Summary:

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WCP3881

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

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WCP1998

From:
Francis ("Frank") Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 July 1897
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 321-322
Summary:

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WCP625

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Mitten
Date:
21 July 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP15/1/5
Summary:

Sending Jamaica and Singapore moss; plants in flower in ARW's pond and garden, letters from son William, who is working on a railway [in America]; purchase of land by the Parish [at Hurstpierpoint]; convolvulus. Notes: When first listed this was were in a brown cardboard box in the form of a book, entitled "Letters" on spine, containing miscellaneous apparently unrelated letters and photos; it seems more appropriate here.

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WCP3882

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

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WCP1468

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
26 August 1897
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/268
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 26
Summary:

ARW sends apologies on not congratulating Clement Reid on his marriage, but congratulates him now. Returns Ridley's letter, also Flower's. Mentions the "white snake". Ridley has sent some more orchids.

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WCP3046

From:
Charles Creighton
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4? September 1897
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 f. 310
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP293

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
7 September 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/92
Summary:

Violet's trip to Paris; ARW's trips to Paris in the past; visits from Mr Osborne and Mr Carter re lecture by Mr Casson on "the labour church and the latent goodness of humanity"; Fred Birch; her brother William's letters.

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WCP5121

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Fletcher Barrett
Date:
12 September 1897
Source of text:
Barrett, W. F. (1900). On the so-called divining rod. A psycho-physical research on a peculiar faculty alleged to exist in certain persons locally known as dowsers. Book II. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research : 15 (38): 130-383 [pp. 277 & 374-375]
Summary:

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WCP6607

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

ARW states that most spiritualists consider the appearance of Christ after the crucifixion as materialisations, and discusses this point. Thanks JM for his kind appreciation of his book on Darwinism.

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WCP6600

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
16 September 1897
Source of text:
Forum Auctions (auction)
Summary:

ARW will be going for a stroll in the forest with Mr Mitten who is staying with them; they will call in on CR on the way back.

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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.

Contributor:
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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:

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WCP5764

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 September 1897
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 236-237]
Summary:

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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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