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WCP415

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
[July?] [1895]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/4/9
Summary:

Plans for Annie's father (William Mitten) and ARW to tour in Switzerland after her return; expects many rare plants in the mountains, possibility of visiting Pilatus or Stanzenhorn, asks Annie to enquire about hotel rates there, and about a hotel in Lucerne for day of their arrival; regards to Bessie; asks for news of her tour and fellow-travellers; receipt of letter from Miss Jekyll enclosing an enquiry from another correspondent re effect of sea-air on plants at Lyme Regis; mosquitoes at Rhone glacier.

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WCP3156

From:
Jacques Élisée Reclus
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 July 1895
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 f. 143
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP2615

From:
Richard Hopton
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 July 1895
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 309-310
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP6591

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
3 July 1895
Source of text:
Forum Auctions (auction)
Summary:

ARW leaves at midday on Friday for Switzerland. CR could come tomorrow (Thursday) evening and stay the night. ARW enquires about sleeping carriages, etc., from Bale [sic] to Brussels; is glad CR found something new in Ireland. Thanks for ?Pinguicula which arrived in excellent condition.

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WCP3159

From:
Matthew Jones
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 July 1895
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 ff. 148-149
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 135]
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP412

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
7 July 1895
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/4/6
Summary:

Arrival and journey with her father (William Mitten) by steamer and train, food, and plans to go on to Stangerbourn; her father's health.

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WCP2609

From:
Edward Trusted Bennett
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 July 1895
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 f. 298
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP413

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
[11] July 1895
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/4/7
Summary:

Walk (with William Mitten) over Grimsel Pass, collecting Soldanellas and a Primula; plants boxed and sent off; plans to walk to Handeck to botanise and see a fine waterfall.

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WCP414

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
[13] July 1895
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/4/8(2)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/4/8(1)
Summary:

Walk with Annie's father (William Mitten) from Grimsel Hospice; visit to Reichenbach Falls and gorge of the Aar; sending a box of plants collected including a beech fern and some Asplenium septentrionale (fern); plans to go to Wengern and stay a week; Mitten collecting mosses; cost of postage of newspapers from England.

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WCP6592

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
28 July 1895
Source of text:
Forum Auctions (auction)
Summary:

ARW will be pleased to see CR and his sister when they come to Parkstone. ARW & Mr Mitten had a good time on the whole in Switzerland. Mr Mitten brought home plants which have filled over 100 pots. ARW was delighted with the signs of glaciation and has material for another anti-?Bonneyite paper.

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WCP1618

From:
[unknown person]
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
31 July 1895
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/302
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP6593

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
24 August 1895
Source of text:
Forum Auctions (auction)
Summary:

ARW is proposing to go to Corfe with his daughter and a friend and asks CR to join them. ARW wishes to ask something about Poole Harbour "as to which the Poole people are in a state of frantic terror!".

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WCP1466

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
31 August 1895
Source of text:
  • Forum Auctions (auction)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/266
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 5
Summary:

ARW thanks CR for the map of Bournemouth and for the ?spiranthus which he has planted in the dampest part of his Alpine bed. ARW is sorry not to have the excursion; his daughter and the friend are returning to Liverpool and his wife has a badly inflamed eye. Regarding Poole Harbour, the Poole Corporation and Harbour Board fear the sand banks will be washed away and the harbour ruined and are spending thousands of pounds on sea walls; mentions sand banks and hopes CR might be able to give an opinion on the subject.

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WCP3876

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
Date:
17 September 1895
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: HNR/2/1/7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP5629

From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 September 1895
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 65]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP266

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
4 October 1895
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/65
Summary:

Bills from Violet's dressmaker and dentist; instructions for obtaining a copy of the County History of Lancashire; death of Crumpet, a family cat, and the fate of her kittens; ARW's article on language published, leading article on it in the Daily Chronicle; regards to Eleanor; Ma's (Annie Mitten) health; Violet's brother William still at Govan.

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WCP5630

From:
William Ewart Gladstone
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
18 October 1895
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 66-67]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP1435

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
22 October 1895
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 44521 ff. 94-95
  • American Philosophical Society: Alfred Russel Wallace Collection MSS.B.W15a
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/235
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP2611

From:
Stanley de Brath
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 October 1895
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 301-302
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP2610

From:
Charles Voysey
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 October 1895
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 299-300
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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