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"The Arena Gallery of Eminent Thinkers"; pale blue (grey on with dirt on the outside but true colour shows on the folds) embossed paper folder so titled in decorative print (possibly by hand) with black ribbon tie, enclosing 40 loose leafed printed portrait photographs of eminent people with their autographs, including A. R. Wallace; with contents page listing portraits by name and number within the categories Poets, Clergymen, Women, Young American Writers, Men of Letters and Scientists and Philosophers, published by the Arena Publishing Co, Boston, Mass. (USA), undated; all apparently present but not in numerical order; portrait of A. R. Wallace aged about 60 is on top followed by Charles Darwin in old age. Notes: Date based on dates of some of the "Young American Writers", born c, 1860s and apparently aged mid-twenties or thirties in portraits, and apparent age of A. R. Wallace in portrait. |
