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From:
John Hardie
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 October 1896
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 311-312
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford
Date:
1 November 1896
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1900). [Letter from Alfred R. Wallace to "Nunquam" on the death of "The Bounder"]. The Clarion : 447 : 205
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
Date:
November 1896
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: HNR/2/1/7
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
1 November 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/76
Summary:

Lectures on children's education by American visitor Mrs Stetson at Parkstone and Poole, her popularity, relationship to Harriet Beecher Stowe, and poetry; talks with her on poetry, socialism and Weisman's theory; death of "the Bounder" from typhoid fever.

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From:
William Fawcett
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 November 1896
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 ff. 21-22
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
26 November 1896
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 58
Summary:

ARW will not make a speech in Darwin's honour at Oxford. Hooker should do this, as he is Darwin's oldest surviving friend. ARW believes that Darwin would not have wanted a statue of himself. Would be better to found institution or professorship for research.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
27 November 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/77
Summary:

His voluminous correspondence, Percy Burell; lime tree blight; gas leak in house; new patent fire mantel; Professor Poulton and proposed statue of Darwin in Oxford; Violet's salary.

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From:
Henry Simpson Lunn
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 December 1896
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 f. 151
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
2 December 1896
Source of text:
University College London, Special Collections: Galton 142/2B/3, Box 68
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
2 December 1896
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 59
Summary:

Thanking him for his volume on Darwin. Has received circular from Galton about suggested Royal Society Biological Farm.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
2 December 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/79
Summary:

Request from her brother William for aid to an unemployed schoolmaster; gardening; orchids; MS demanded by Violet sent; articles by Nansen sent.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Ernst Johann Otto Hartert
Date:
6 December 1896
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM TM1-24-1-207
  • Hartert, E. (1896). An account of the collection of birds made by Mr. William Doherty in the Eastern Archipelago. Novitates Zoologicae: 3: 537-599 [p. 543]
Summary:

Glad Hartert wrote to ARW re. Ptilotis limbata because ARW seems to have overlooked fact that had found it in Bali - obtained only 1 specimen there - fault of agent that it got misplaced from ARW's private collection (which was afterwards purchased by the BM) & was bought by Mr Gould. ARW's notes indicate Ptilotis limbata obtained by him in Baly [sic] and Lombok. Inc. list of birds collected by ARW June 13+14, 1856.

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From:
Felix Banfi-Baronio
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 December 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/146
Summary:

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
14 December 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/78
Summary:

Her brother William; arrangements for Christmas; bicycles; Mrs Stetson; Mr Waddington; visit from the Sharpes and Lady Torrens, Lady Torrens on spiritualism; Violet's K.G. (Kindergarten) magazine.

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From:
Joseph William Blankinship
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 December 1896
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46437 f. 23
Summary:

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

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

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