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WCP3708

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Michael Flürscheim
Date:
14 June 1896
Source of text:
Bancroft Library, University of California: BANC MSS 76/109 z
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP2613

From:
Francis Clarke
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 June 1896
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 305-306
Summary:

No summary available.

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WCP4534

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
25 June 1896
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 185
Summary:

About Linnean meeting. Description of "woad" from Chamber's Encyclopaedia.

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WCP4535

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
26 June 1896
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 186
Summary:

His sister died two years ago. Her husband, Thomas Sims, who was a photographer with a small business, has been sold up for rent, and is in danger of starvation or the workhouse. Does Meldola know of a post such as photographer to a scientific man or institution which would be suitable for Sims?.

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WCP3706

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Michael Flürscheim
Date:
12 July 1896
Source of text:
Bancroft Library, University of California: BANC MSS 76/109 z
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP2757

From:
Thomas Bainbrigge Walter Campbell Fletcher
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 August 1896
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 ff. 19-20
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP416

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
9 August 1896
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/4/10(2)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/4/10(1)
Summary:

Her arrival at Adelboden and receipt of her letter and Violet's card; work in garden and orchid house, box of orchids expected from Singapore shortly, teaching Kate [housemaid] how to care for orchids in his absence; his tickets and luggage labels (for Switzerland) have arrived with list of party, including Mr Le Gallienne, a poet and alleged Socialist; will stay on arrival at Hotel Victoria Davos Platz; looks forward to going on to Adelboden.

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WCP417

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
29 August 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/4/11
Summary:

His tour in Switzerland and return journey, hoping her trip was as enjoyable; orchids and garden generally in good condition but orchids from Singapore mostly dead and smashed due to bad packing; belladonna lilies in beautiful flower, greenhouse a bower; news of Miss Armstrong, General and Miss Dunn, Mr Sharpe and the Jacombs; letter from son William; love to Violet and all the Mitten family.

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WCP3521

From:
Richard Budd
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[September] [1896]
Source of text:
Wellcome Trust: MS5153/A/50/2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP6597

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Reid
Date:
5 September 1896
Source of text:
Forum Auctions (auction)
Summary:

ARW agrees with CR's report and request for the grant to be restored. The phrase about the snake is very vague. ARW sent a copy of the paper on the Gorge of Aar to Dorchester (?CR at Dorchester). ARW had three weeks in Davos and Adelboden. Ridley has sent a large box of orchids.

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WCP3878

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
Date:
6 September 1896
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: HNR/2/1/7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP1602

From:
J. S.? Malim?
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 September 1896
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP6/12/11
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP6/12/11
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP5745

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
Date:
14 September 1896
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 204]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP275

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
23 September 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/74
Summary:

Her proposed trip to Switzerland, enclosing a letter from Miss Lowe (not present) with details of a chalet; arrangements for payment for a new machine [bicycle]; Harris asking for ARW articles, may rewrite some of his lectures; visits by Violet's brother William and Grandpa (William Mitten).

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WCP3711

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Michael Flürscheim
Date:
27 September 1896
Source of text:
Bancroft Library, University of California: BANC MSS 76/109 z
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP4763

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Benjamin Samuels
Date:
27 September 1896
Source of text:
  • Mark Samuels (private collection)
  • Mark Samuels (private collection)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP4764

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Benjamin Samuels
Date:
5 October 1896
Source of text:
Mark Samuels (private collection)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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WCP6443

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Morrison ("Morrison") Davidson
Date:
8 October 1896
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1896). [Letter extract concerning Morrison Davidson's discussion of Saxons and Britons in his book The Annals of Toil ]. The Aberystwyth Observer : 2533 : 2
Summary:

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Contributor:
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WCP4536

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
12 October 1896
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 187
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 68-70]
Summary:

Compliments Weismann's book on selection and discussion of central themes.

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WCP276

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
18 October 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/75
Summary:

Books and The Clarion; chess; Violet's new bicycle; Mrs Fisher's new book; beetles and snails; explanation of the movement of a free pendulum relative to the movement of the earth with suggestions for classroom experiment; Mrs Julia Dawson of The Clarion.

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