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NHM-WP01.006.002 Correspondence: Birch Frederick R, Wallace Alfred Russel, Moss A M, New Age The 1910.01.23 Postcard from Fred Birch to A. R. Wallace from Theophilo Ottoni, Brazil, 23 Jan 1910 re receipt of A. R. Wallace's December letters, acquaintance with A M Moss at the Lancs & Cheshire entomological society, Moss's collections and paintings; "The New Age"; asking for copies of "Intensive Agriculture". Place: Broadstone Dorset England Theophilo Ottoni Brazil

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NHM-WP01.006.003 Correspondence: Birch Frederick R, Wallace Alfred Russel, Huber ?, Jordan Heinrich Ernst Karl, Moss A M, May ?, Thoreau Henry David, New Age The 1910.02.14 Letter from Fred Birch to A. R. Wallace from Theophilo Ottoni, Brazil, 14 Feb 1910 re A. R. Wallace's letter to Dr Huber; lack of information on insect collecting opportunities in Para, suspects trade rivalry; plans to leave Brazil after two and a half years there, details of repeated theft and loss of packages in the mails and his valuable hand-made collecting case sent from Tring by Dr Jordan at Bahia customs house; misunderstanding with Mr May over house rent and purchase of collections; surprise at news of A M Moss collecting in the Andes; butterflies sent to Tring made £53.12.00 but cannot trust beetle collection to a carrier, is making boxes for them; plans to go to British Guiana and collect on the Demerara or Berbice rivers, cannot afford to go to the Andes because of responsibility for Mary and Elsie (wife and child?); disagrees with A. R. Wallace's views on labour and intellect, quotes Thoreau and from an A. R. Wallace letter; necessity of broad study and experience of life, nobility of agricultural labour; admires some articles in the N.A.("New Age"). Green paper envelope (stamp torn off) addressed to A. R. Wallace at Broadstone, postmarked on the front Theophilo Ottoni 20 Feb 1910 and on the back Ambula Rio de Janeiro 2? 21? 1910, Diamantina (date illegible) and Wimborne 20 Mar (1910); annotated on the front in A. R. Wallace's hand "Recd. Mar 20th 1910 | Rio or B. Guiana! | Written Feby 1910". Notes: The envelope also contained a letter written on May 5 - see WP1/6/4

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NHM-WP01.006.004 Correspondence: Birch Frederick R, Wallace Alfred Russel, May ?, Donne John, Thoreau Henry David, Emerson Ralph Waldo, Rodway ?, Mill John Stuart, Sparrow Walter S, New Age The 1910.05.05 Letter from Fred Birch to A. R. Wallace from Theophilo Ottoni, Brazil, 5 May 1910 with rough ink sketch of a Zeonia butterfly at the top of first page and of Nymphalinae butterfly at the bottom of the last page. Re delay in leaving Brazil due to photographing local families, problems of portrait photograph; reconsidering move (to British Guiana), correspondence with Mr May and Mr Rodway of Georgetown, Barbados, recent changes in laws on immigration into British colonies, possibility of going to Victoria, Espirito Santo, Brazil as living cheaper and postal service more reliable than in Rio state; nature of entomologists, not all collectors lovers of nature, quotes a John Donne verse (probably as quoted in "Walden" by Thoreau) and Emerson on man and nature; collection for Prof Poulton now complete; recent collections of moths and butterflies including an unknown moth and probable Zeonia and a Nymphalinae butterflies (all described in some detail); long local drought affecting crops and food prices; gardening; asks for news of British parliament and budget; unemployment relief, have Mr Mill's (J S Mill?) and A. R. Wallace's schemes been tried; asks for copies of "Intensive Culture" published by the "Clarion" and "New Age" article on "The Art of homemaking" by Walter S Sparrow. Place: Barbados Caribbean Islands Brazil British Guiana Notes: 1 folio. This was in the same envelope as letter dated 14 Feb 1910 -see WP1/6/3

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NHM-WP01.006.005 Correspondence: Birch Frederick R, Wallace Alfred Russel, Cotton Sir Arthur, Albert Edward Wettin Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay Earl of Carrick Baron Renfrew Lord of the Isles Great Steward of Scotland, Edward VII King of Great Britain and Ireland, Paulhan Louis, Boynton ?, Halley Edmund, New Age The 1910.07.14 Letter from Fred Birch to A. R. Wallace from "that wretched T.O." (Theophilo Ottoni, Brazil), 14 Jul 1910 with thanks for letters and three copies of "The New Age", other copies failed to arrive, presumed stolen, hopes promised copy of Sir Arthur Cotton's tract on agriculture will arrive safely, no news of Velox photographic paper ordered via Mr May; belated news of King's death through local Germans; Paulhan's flight from London to Manchester, speculation on when public air travel will be possible and its effects; hopes for the arrival of Socialism; detailed descriptions of the appearance and behaviour of birds and animals visiting the garden including parroquets, orioles, toucans and callistes, many eating oranges, wrens attacking a snake, woodpeckers apparently eating pawpaws or insects within them; opossums, bats taking food from the table and cooking stove, fruit scarce in forest; night temperatures below freezing, large variation of day and night temperature; cannot consider joining Captain Boynton at the Orinoco because considering move to British Guiana or Victoria (Brazil); has practiced dentistry on Mary (wife?) and filled several cavities; good view of Halley's comet. Postscript on a smaller sheet of paper asking cost of land in Hampshire, Devonshire and Somerset and whether peaches can be grown there; where filberts will grow successfully (in Britain); Windermere; asks for news of any land available on the Warwickshire Avon. Green paper envelope with stamp removed, postmarked Theophilo-Ottoni 17 Jul 1910, addressed to A. R. Wallace at Broadstone; annotated in A. R. Wallace's? or WGW's? hand "Dated - July, 1910". Place: Barbados Caribbean Islands Brazil British Guiana Devonshire England Hampshire Warwickshire Notes: 3 folios consisting of 2 folios 16.5cm x 10.5cm and a note on a small sheet of paper 9cm x 7cm

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NHM-WP01.006.006 Correspondence: Birch Frederick R, Wallace Alfred Russel, Cotton Sir Arthur Thomas, New Age The 1910.07.19 Postcard from Fred Birch to A. R. Wallace from Theophilo Ottoni, Brazil, 19 Jul 1910 thanking A. R. Wallace for the pamphlet (by Sir Arthur Cotton) on intensive agriculture which has arrived safely along with copies of "The New Age", is delighted with it; gives details of his gardening methods and previous year's crops of oats and potatoes, potatoes this year destroyed by ants; adds to description of Calliste birds given in last letter (see WP1/6/5) and corrects description of Toucan; reminds A. R. Wallace he wants details of prices, soil, temperature and rainfall of land in Devonshire. Place: Brazil Devonshire

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NHM-WP01.006.007 Correspondence: Birch Frederick R, Wallace Alfred Russel, Scofield ?, Reiche Eugenis?, Cotton Sir Arthur Thomas, New Age The 1910.12.15 Letter from Fred Birch to A. R. Wallace from the Brazil highlands, Brazil, 15 Dec 1910 re delay in plans to leave for another part of Brazil as wife Mary expecting a child in March and no replies (re suitability of the area) from correspondents in Espirito Santo, Victoria; has collected many new beetle species though butterflies scarcer than before, will risk posting a box of Lepidoptera to Mr May in Rio; considering moving to Caravellas or Peruhype, quotes a letter from Mr Scofield recommending both areas as ideal sites for insect collecting, will write to Eugenis? Reiche about housing; describes capture and photographing of a sloth which bit him through the thumb, sloth's fur infested with many small moths similar to Depressaria; thanks for copies of N.A. ("The New Age"; wheat planted according to Cotton's methods thriving. Place: Brazil

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NHM-WP01.007.004 Correspondence: Skertchly Sydney Barber Josiah 1910.02.06 Letter to A. R. Wallace from Sydney B Skertchly from Corinda 6 Feb 1910 2 ff. (in envelope from Hamer & Co when listed). Place: Australia

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NHM-WP01.007.005 Correspondence: Skertchly Sydney Barber Josiah 1910.02.12 Letter to A. R. Wallace from Sydney B Skertchly from Corinda 12 Feb 1910 with ink sketch of a wallaby on first page and ink sketch of geologic section "Old Palaeozoic" re "unconformity in the Wallace/Skertchly series" and Wallace's line, 16 numbered pages on 8 ff; (in envelope from Hamer & Co when listed). Place: Australia

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NHM-WP01.007.006 Correspondence: Skertchly Sydney Barber Josiah 1910.02.17 Letter to A. R. Wallace from Sydney B Skertchly from jungle west of Corinda 17 Feb 1910, 3 ff, 6 numbered pages; (in envelope from Hamer & Co when listed). Place: Australia

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NHM-WP01.008.001 Correspondence: Aitken John 1899.03.27 Letter from John Aitken to A. R. Wallace from Ardenlea, Falkirk, 27 Mar 1899, re light, atmospheric particles and the causes of the blue colour of sea water and sky. Place: Scotland

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NHM-WP01.008.002 Correspondence: Aitken John, Tyndall John 1899.04.07 Letter from John Aitken to A. R. Wallace from Ardenlea, Falkirk, 7 Apr 1899, re light, atmospheric particles and the causes of the blue colour of sea water and sky; 2 ff., back of f. 2 annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand "See Tyndall in Nature vol. 1. ... colours of water and air". Place: Scotland

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NHM-WP01.008.003 Correspondence: Aitken John, Tyndall John 1899.04.17 Letter from John Aitken to A. R. Wallace from Ardenlea, Falkirk, 17 Apr 1899, re light, atmospheric particles and the causes of the blue colour of sea water and sky, Tyndall's article in "Nature", polarized light; 3 ff. Place: Scotland Notes: First page of f. 2 numbered in ink "5" and of f. 3 "9".

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NHM-WP01.008.004 Correspondence: Aitken John 1900.11.19 Letter from John Aitken to A. R. Wallace from Ardenlea, Falkirk, 19 Nov 1900, re light, atmospheric particles and the causes of the blue colour of the sky; 2 ff. Place: Scotland Notes: First page of f. 1 numbered "5".

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NHM-WP01.008.005 Correspondence: Aitken John, Dewar Sir James 1900.11.23 Letter from John Aitken to A. R. Wallace from Ardenlea, Falkirk, 23 Nov 1900, re prof Dewar's experiments, light, atmospheric particles and the causes of the blue colour of the sky. Place: Scotland Notes: Some passages underlined in blue pencil.

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NHM-WP01.008.006 Correspondence: Aldrich James 1913.01.22 Letter from J M Aldrich to A. R. Wallace from University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA 22 Jan 1913, with 90th birthday congratulations Place: USA

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NHM-WP01.008.007 Correspondence: Allen George, Wallace Alfred Russel 1903.10.03 Postcard from George Allen, Publisher, Ruskin House, London, 3 Oct 1903, re order for "Literary Year Book 1904". Place: London

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NHM-WP01.008.008 Correspondence: Association of Public School Science Masters 1913.01.08 Telegram from the Association of Public School Science Masters, from London, 8 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday and on his achievements. Place: Broadstone Dorset London England

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NHM-WP01.008.009 Correspondence: Australian Association for the Advancement of Science , Maiden Joseph Henry 1913.01.08 Reuters telegram from Maiden, Secretary, for the meeting of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science, from Melbourne (Victoria), 8 Jan 1913, to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday and on his achievements. Place: Broadstone Dorset England Melbourne Victoria Australia

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NHM-WP01.008.010 Correspondence: Australian Association for the Advancement of Science, Maiden Joseph Henry 1913.01.08 [Letter]. Place: Broadstone Dorset England Melbourne Victoria Australia

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NHM-WP01.008.011 Correspondence: Baddeley Welbore St. Clair 1913.01.08 Telegram from St Clair Baddeley (Welbore St Clair Baddeley?) from London, 8 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace from congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday and on his achievements. Place: Broadstone Dorset England London England

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NHM-WP01.008.012 Correspondence: Bancks Gerard W, Wallace Alfred Russel 1874.[04.00] Letter from Rev Gerard W Bancks to A. R. Wallace, from Hartley Rectory, near Longfield, Kent, (Apr?) no year or month date, asking A. R. Wallace to accept enclosed pamphlets; Bancks a great admirer of A. R. Wallace's work on spiritualism ("On Miracles and Modern Spiritualism", 1874?) . Place: Kent England

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NHM-WP01.008.013 Correspondence: Barrow Thomas 1913.01.08 Letter from Thomas Barrow, from Gowerton, 8 Jan 1913, congratulating him on his 90th birthday. Place: Wales

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NHM-WP01.008.015 Correspondence: Bell Francis Jeffrey 1913.01.04 Letter from F Jeffrey Bell, from BM(NH), London, 4 Jan 1913, to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday and on his achievements.

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NHM-WP01.008.016 Correspondence: Berghe W van den 1913.01.08 Letter from W van den Berghe, from London, 8 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace, begging for money for a passage to South Africa after reading a biographical article about Wallace in the Westminster Gazette including Wallace's reported opinion on the alleviation of poverty; he has been financially ruined by the Boer War and by the loss of restaurant in Leith, Scotland due to strikes. Place: Broadstone Dorset London England Stamped envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace at Broadstone, annotated in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Ansd."

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NHM-WP01.008.017 Correspondence: Berghe W van den 1913.01.[12] Letter from W van den Berghe, from London 12? Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace re Russel's reply to his previous letter of 8 Jan 1913 (See WP1/187) saying that there is no South African Consul in London; asking for the addresses of any wealthy South Africans Russel may know. Stamped envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace at Broadstone, annotated in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Ansd. Place: Broadstone Dorset London England

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NHM-WP01.008.018 Correspondence: Bertram Dora 1913.01.08 Telegram from Dora Bertram, from London, 8 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday and on his achievements. Place: Broadstone Dorset London England

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NHM-WP01.008.019 Correspondence: Wallace Alfred Russel 1913.01.07 Letter from Dora S?W? Best?, from Goole, 7 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday and giving news of her family, weather and gardening. Place: Broadstone Dorset Goole East Yorkshire England

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NHM-WP01.008.020 Correspondence: Bournemouth Natural Science Society 1913.01.08 Telegram from the Bournemouth Natural Science Society, from Bournemouth, 8 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday and on his achievements. Place: Broadstone Dorset Bournemouth Dorset England

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NHM-WP01.008.022 Correspondence: British Phrenological Society Incorporated 1907.04.18 Letter to A. R. Wallace from the British Phrenological Society Incorporated, Chancery Lane, 18 Apr 1907, signed George Hart-Cox Place: London

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NHM-WP01.008.025 Correspondence: Broughton ? Miss901, Petrie Mrs 1913.01.10 Letter on card from Miss Broughton and Mrs Petrie, from Plymouth, 10 Jan 1913, to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on his 90th birthday Place: Plymouth Devon England

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NHM-WP01.008.026 Correspondence: Brown Robert 1903.11.27 Letter from Robert Brown Jnr to A. R. Wallace from Tankerville, Boscombe, Bournemouth, 27 Nov 1903 re A. R. Wallace's "Man's Place in the Universe". Place: Bournemouth Dorset England

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NHM-WP01.008.027 Correspondence: Brown Robert, Wallace Alfred Russel, Lang Andrew, Kavanah ? 1904.01.08 Letter from Robert Brown Jnr to A. R. Wallace from Hull, 8 Jan 1904, enclosing a sheet headed "Remarks", re the origin of speech and Brown's paper on it, occult imitation, Socratic Dialogue on Language in Jowett's "Plato", Andrew Lang and the application of totemistic principles to historical names; returning A. R. Wallace's paper on "Speech" (not present). The "remarks" are notes with associated page numbers, (possibly pages in A. R. Wallace's paper?). Place: Hull Humberside England

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NHM-WP01.008.028 Correspondence: Bulley H A 1913.01.07 Letter from H A Bulley, from Brighton, 7 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace in response to A. R. Wallace's article in the "Daily News" of 6 Jan 1913, congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday and his services to Spiritualism and disagreeing at length with his views on Socialism. Place: Broadstone Dorset Brighton East Sussex England

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NHM-WP01.008.029 Correspondence: Butter Stanley E? 1913.01.18 Letter [no description] Place: Tunbridge Wells Kent

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NHM-WP01.008.030 Correspondence: Button Arthur 1913.01.07 Letter from Arthur Button from Parkstone (Dorset), 7 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday and commenting on his article in the "Daily News and Leader."

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NHM-WP01.008.031 Correspondence: Casey Olive 1913.01.08 Telegram from Olive and Bertie [Casey?], from Parkstone (Dorset), 8 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday and on his achievements. Place: Broadstone Dorset Parkstone Dorset England

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NHM-WP01.008.033 Correspondence: Cousins R R, Reynolds Osborne 1913.11.14 Letter from J R Collins, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto, 14 Nov 1903, to A. R. Wallace re re radiation and Osborne Reynold's theory of matter and ether. 2 folios. Possibly related to A. R. Wallace's "Man's place in the Universe. ." (book pub August 1903) Place: Canada

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NHM-WP01.008.034 Correspondence: Cousins R R [1913].01.10 Letter from R R Cousins, from Plymouth, 10 Jan 1912 (sic: 1913) to A. R. Wallace commenting on an interview with him printed in the "Daily News and Leader"; enclosing a printed tract "A Word to a Sabbath-Breaker" by John Wesley. Stamped envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace at Broadstone, postmarked on the front Plymouth 10 Jan 1913 and on the back Wimborne 11 Jan 1913; annotated in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand "About the Sabbath Josephus Bible". Place: Broadstone Dorset Plymouth Devon England

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NHM-WP01.008.035 Correspondence: Critchlow William, Blackpool Spiritualist Church 1913.01.14 Letter from William Critchlow, Blackpool Spiritualist Church, Blackpool, 14 Jan 1913, to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on his 90th birthday. Place: Blackpool England

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NHM-WP01.008.036 Correspondence: Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society, Roberts Frank W 1913.02.07 Letter from Frank W Roberts for the Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society, from Croydon, 7 Feb 1913 to A. R. Wallace replying to A. R. Wallace's request for records of his connection with the Society; first mentioned in Proceedings 1878 exhibiting butterflies from the Malay Archipelago including Kallima from Sumatra; elected a member Feb 1879; supported admission of women as visitors at meetings in 1880, vote twice defeated at the time but women are now both visitors and members and one was recently elected to the Council; paper on British flora and fauna and discussion on colonization in animals 1880; exhibition of Malay artefacts at Soiree 1880. Place: Broadstone Dorset England Notes: 2 folios

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NHM-WP01.008.037 Correspondence: Daily Chronicle 1913.01.11 Telegram from the editor of the "Daily Chronicle", Fleet Street, London, 11 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace asking for an article for publication on his opinion on the Insurance Act as an instrument of social reform. Place: Broadstone Dorset London England Notes: 2ff

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NHM-WP01.008.038 Correspondence: Daily Mail The 1913.01.08 Telegram from the editor of the "Daily Mail", London, 8 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday and asking for news of his future plans. Place: Broadstone Dorset London England

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NHM-WP01.008.039 Correspondence: Davidson W A 1911.12.29 Letter from W A Davidson to A. R. Wallace from Glen-Shee, Uxbridge, 29 Dec 1911 re A. R. Wallace's letter to the "Times" on the Insurance Act. Place: London England Notes: 5

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NHM-WP01.008.040 Correspondence: Davieson Charles 1913.01.19 Letter from Charles Davieson, St Leonards-on-Sea, 19 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on his 90th birthday. Place: Sussex England

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NHM-WP01.008.041 Correspondence: Dawson Julia Mrs 1913.01.18 Postcard from Julia Dawson, Nice, 18 Jan 1913, to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on his 90th birthday. Place: Nice France

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NHM-WP01.008.042 Correspondence: Douglass G Norman, Schopenhauer Arthur 1894.06.15 Letter to A. R. Wallace from G Norman Douglass, St Petersburg British Embassy, 15 June 1894, re Schopenhauer and "recognition marks" in animals. Place: Russia

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NHM-WP01.008.043 Correspondence: Dundee Society of Spiritualists , Stevenson James M [1913.01.00] Letter from the Dundee Society of Spiritualists, undated Jan? 1913? to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on his 90th birthday; signed by James M Stevenson, President, and 5 other office-holders. Place: Scotland

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NHM-WP01.008.044 Correspondence: Egon Erõs 1913.01.11 Letter from Egon Erõs, Budapest, 11 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace asking for his autograph; envelope addressed "Sir Russel Alfred Wallace Esq." postmarked Budapest 11 Jan 1913. Place: Hungary

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NHM-WP01.008.045 Correspondence: Evans M T 1913.01.08 Postcard from M T Evans, Weymouth, 8 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on his 90th birthday. Place: Weymouth Dorset England

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NHM-WP01.008.046 Correspondence: Farmer W J [1913].01.08 Letter from W J Farmer, from Redruth?, 8 Jan 1913? to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on his 90th birthday; envelope with postmarks including Redruth 8 Jan 1913 and annotations including, in A. R. Wallace's? hand on the back, "W. J. Farmer". Place: Redruth Cornwall England