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From:
Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant-Duff
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 March 1893
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 284-285
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
5 March 1893
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/20
Summary:

Writes regarding sending £20 for William's birthday; family health; arrival of a circular from college [Finsbury Technical College]; Violet going to Liverpool to interview for a teaching position in a girl's school, salary offered, advantages of living in Liverpool; ARW's purchase of Chambers' Encyclopaedia; new stamp album; ARW's article on "Inaccessible Valleys" in the Nineteenth Century, re-reading Lorna Doone; complete works of Dickens for Ma's (William's mother Annie Wallace) birthday and Scott's novels for Violet; Ponton's shilling pin-hole camera.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Erny
Date:
28 March 1893
Source of text:
  • Bibliothèque Muncipale de Lyon: Fonds Papus: MS 5486
  • Erny, A. (1895). In: Le Psychisme Expérimental: Étude des Phénomènes Psychiques. Paris: Flammarion. [pp. 160-162]
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From:
Friedrich Hermann Otto ("Otto") Finsch
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
30 March 1893
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 f. 286
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Osmond Fisher
Date:
30 March 1893
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Olaf Halvorsen
Date:
[8] April 1893
Source of text:
Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution: MSS 001526 A
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
27 April 1893
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 177
Summary:

ARW sends proof of article on heredity. Comments on his argument and purpose. Will has left Siemens and is going to see Crookes. Comments on J. A. Allen's review in the Ark, Romanes article in reply to Spencer, and Weismann's book The Germ Plasm.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Frances ("Fanny") Sims (née Wallace)
Date:
1 May 1893
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/121
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
4 May 1893
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/1/21
Summary:

Regarding Mr Crooke's behaviour towards William; enclosing a letter from his sister Violet (not present); mentioning Mr Stead and (spirit?) writing.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
James Murdoch Geikie
Date:
9 May 1893
Source of text:
British Geological Survey: GSM/GX/Wa/1
Summary:

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From:
James Murdoch Geikie
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
11 May 1893
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 287-289
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
James Murdoch Geikie
Date:
12 May 1893
Source of text:
British Geological Survey: GSM/GX/Wa/1
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
16 May [1893]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/31
Summary:

Violet's career; loss of a parcel of books sent by rail.

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From:
Thomas Wise Browning
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 May 1893
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 f. 290
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Frances ("Fanny") Sims (née Wallace)
Date:
20 May 1893
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/122
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
2 June 1893
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/32
Summary:

Marking of exams; upcoming holidays; attempts to let the house; discovery of missing parcel of books; anatomy of flowers, including an ink sketch of a flower section with parts labelled; Violet's career.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Frances ("Fanny") Sims (née Wallace)
Date:
3 June 1893
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/123
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/123
Summary:

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From:
Michael Foster
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 June 1893
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/298
Summary:

Notifying ARW of his election to a fellowship.

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From:
[unknown person]
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 June 1893
Source of text:
Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
10 June 1893
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 178
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 55-56]
Summary:

Discussion of individual adaptability question. Spencer is disturbed by possibility of non-heredity of acquired characteristics. Will go to the Lakes and Derbyshire in a week. Royal Society - minute books - who attended meetings?.

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