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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
[1890]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/16
Summary:

Bill for book binding; flowers sent from France by Harris; national stocks of coal and dispute between colliery owners and miners.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
[1890]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/17
Summary:

Violet's studies and effort to obtain a hedgehog for teaching purposes; damage to William's eyes in a laboratory accident; ARW's thoughts on the publication "Why does man Exist"; Violet's illegible writing.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
10 February 1890
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/8
Summary:

Violet's birthday; ARW's lecture tour; ARW to give evidence before a Royal Commission (on vaccination); local burglary; visitors.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
9 March 1890
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/9
Summary:

Royal Commission on Vaccination; visit to old friends at Liverpool; Violet's cats, influenza and studies.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
23 March 1890
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/10
Summary:

Violet's health and expenses; family visitors.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
19 May 1890
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/11
Summary:

Spring flowers; family affairs; Vaccination Commission; exam papers.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
14 June 1890
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/13
Summary:

Marking exam papers; writing address for L.N. (Land Nationalisation) Society; Violet's studies; local walks.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
24 June 1890
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/12
Summary:

Family members; Nutwood Cottage; visitors; Bull's Exhibition of Orchids at Chelsea.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
22 November 1890
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/14
Summary:

Award to ARW of Royal Society medal; psychical research, article in Arena; visits to neighbours; books; the French revolution.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
11 December 1890
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/15
Summary:

Family illness and illness of Mr Sharpe; Violet's expenses; house alterations; arrival of medal and cheque from Royal Society.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
7 January 1891
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/18
Summary:

Confusion over correspondence with Mrs Lund; Violet's "adventure" on journey to Liverpool [train de-railed]; enclosed letter from Croydon (not present).

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
1 February [1891]
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/7
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/6
Summary:

House renovation; family affairs; neighbours; kindergartens; ARW's lectures and article in Arena.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
16 February 1891
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/19
Summary:

Covent Garden market, Natural History Museum and Kew gardens as sources of garden plants; alterations to house; Mr Sharpe's health; Mr Pascoe's "Museum" at Westbourne Park.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
26 March 1891
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/20
Summary:

Violet's expenses; alterations to house; new neighbours the Nichols.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
10 May 1891
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/21
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 156-157]
Summary:

Violet attending a [public political] demonstration, labour conditions, the eight hour day, wages; gardening; neighbours.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
11 October 1891
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/133
Summary:

Forwarding Zoo tickets, suicide of gardener's wife Mrs Monk, books, got £20 from Arena for his paper, written paper on "American flowers and forests" for Fortnightly, hopes natural history lectures are not too hard.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
25 October 1891
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/134
Summary:

Being in London at Aunt Fanny's, possibility of meeting Mr Jonck at Lillie Road, asks for ticket to Botanical Gardens, has seen proofs of Professor Lloyd-Morgan's children's book on animals, weather recalls "the pleasant days of Noah", sending essay on problems of physiology.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
[1892]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/22
Summary:

ARW's lecture in Dundee; visit to York; family members, enclosing letters (not present); (Samuel) Butler and Darwinism.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
[1892]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/23
Summary:

ARW's lecture tour; gardening; Violet's lessons on seeds, sending book by Lubbock.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
31 January [1892]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/82
Summary:

Suffering from influenza; Arena (magazine); play "Henry VIII", actors Macready and Irving; Hawker Garland's writing; letter from her brother William; gardeners Monk and Wareham; chess by correspondence.

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