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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
23 January 1899
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/119
Summary:

Her birthday; drainage work; visit from Miss D'Arcy; Swanley Gardening College and gardening as a profession for women; news of her brother William who has sent the mounted head of a deer; Clarion and Chronicle.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
14 February 1899
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/120
Summary:

Her plans to return to England, possibility of visiting the Burrell's, German schools, future career; ARW researching family genealogy for his autobiography, Mrs Gorringe's refusal to supply a photograph of his great-great uncle William Greenell; local house sales; the Evanses, Miss Roberts; Mrs Symonds, Miss North.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
8 March 1899
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/121
  • 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. 116-117]
Summary:

Possibility of teaching posts for her in Cardiff or Oxted and school visits in Jena (Germany); sending her a copies of the Humanitarian, an Anglo-Russian paper and a German psychical paper; writing an article on an Irish cooperative farm to illustrate socialism and an article for the Fortnightly; Wonderful Century not yet in German; comparison of the Maha Bharata and the Iliad; unidentifiable beetle; English tea.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
22 May 1899
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/122
Summary:

Planting orchids and blue South African water lilies in garden; geology of East Grinstead and Limpsfield; visit of Mr William Greenell Wallace No 2 and his wife (from America), engineering work in Stockton (California); requests for a description of Miss Clarke and Violet's new school post [in Limpsfield], local German ladies; Mr Stillman; Hudson's book of British Birds; visit to the New Forest with Dora; regards to Mr Hobson.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
29 June 1899
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/123
Summary:

Her new teaching post, with detailed advice on a formal agreement re salary and conditions to be drawn up by Mr Pease, and advising her to leave if this is not done; sending some frogbit and Villarsin.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
18 November 1899
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/124
Summary:

Her new accommodation, asking for a plan of the house; "the pedigree Mrs Wallace" in London with a photo of her mother resembling ARW; search for illustrations for his new book, has photos from the "Challenger" (expedition), Anthropology Institute, [Royal] Geographical Society, Admiral Maclear, and his own Yosemite Valley photos, intends to get new photos of Birds of Paradise, negotiating for woodcuts from various books; has a letter in The Clarion on the Boers; Chronicle and Daily Mail on Johannesburg mining millionaires.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project