NHM-WP01.008.098    Correspondence:   Ramsay William  1911.12.31   Letter from William Ramsay to A. R. Wallace from Pulteney Hotel, Bath, 31 Dec 1911 re article in the "Daily Mail", forms sent out to Fellows of the Royal Society to be signed by those discontented with the Government Insurance Bill, cannot recall receiving one back from A. R. Wallace. Place: Bath Somerset England

NHM-WP01.008.100    Correspondence:   Reeves E B, Allen George  1913.01.06   Postcard from Edward? B Reeves, from Norwich, 6 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace saying that the interview with A. R. Wallace published in the D.N.& L. ("The Spectre of Poverty", 6 Jan 1913) has inspired him with hope. The postcard shows a printed anti-war text titled "Moral Force Superior to Dreadnoughts | Revolution by Ridicule" by Geo Allen and E B Reeves. Place: Broadstone Dorset Norwich Norfolk England

NHM-WP01.008.102    Correspondence:   Robinson Col? N?  1913.01.08   Letter from Col? N? Robinson, from Westcombe Park, London, 8 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace re an article about him in that day's "Daily Telegraph", strongly disagreeing with A. R. Wallace's apparent belief that a man's estate should be administered by the Government and that he should have no right to leave his money to his heirs. Place: Broadstone Dorset London England

NHM-WP01.008.104    Correspondence:   Royal Society , Foster Michael, Darwin Charles Robert,  1890.11.06   Letter from M Foster to A. R. Wallace, from the Royal Society, Burlington House (London) W, 6 Nov 1890, re award to him of the Society's Darwin Medal for his independent origination of the theory of the origin of species by natural selection. Place: London

NHM-WP01.008.106    Correspondence:   Ruffle William Fitch-  1913.[01].08   Letter from William Fitch-Ruffle, Southsea, 8 June (sic; error for Jan?) 1913, to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on his 90th birthday; stamped envelope postmarked Portsmouth 9 Jan 1913 addressed to Sir A. R. Wallace c/o the Psychist?(sic) Research Society, London, with forwarding address and other annotations including "W Fitch=Ruffle" in pencil on the back in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand. Place: Southsea Sussex England

NHM-WP01.008.108    Correspondence:   Russell Francis Albert Rollo  1913.01.08   Letter from Rollo, Gertrude, Margaret and John Russell to A. R. Wallace from Steep, Petersfield, Hants, 8 Jan 1913, sending congratulations and good wishes on his ninetieth birthday. Stamped envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace at The Old Orchard, Broadstone, Dorset, postmarked on the front London 9 Jan 1913, annotated on the back in pencil in WGW's? hand "90th birthday | Rollo Russell". Place: Broadstone Dorset London England Notes: RECORD MODIFIED 28/7/03 OLD REF Family correspondence 1895-1913: WP1/19/6/6

NHM-WP01.008.110    Correspondence:   Scott Mrs D H  1913.01.08   Telegram from Mrs Scott (of?) Oakley, from London, 8 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday. Place: Broadstone Dorset England London Hampshire Notes: Handed in at Dover Street P.O. and apparently signed for "Mrs Scott Oakley" but annotated in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Dr Scott . Ansd" and there is an entry in A. R. Wallace's address book for Dr. D H Scott of Oakley, Hants.

NHM-WP01.008.112    Correspondence:   Shepheard Thomas  1913.01.08   Letter from Thomas Shepheard, from Bournemouth West, 8 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday. Place: Bournemouth Dorset Broadstone Dorset England

NHM-WP01.008.114    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel  1913.01.07   Postcard showing a black and white view of Thursley from the cricket ground from Jessie Stent, from Thursley, 7 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday. Place: Broadstone Dorset Thursley Surrey England

NHM-WP01.008.116    Correspondence:   Still W A  1913.01.09   Letter from W A Still, Woodmancote, Near Cheltenham, 9 Jan 1913, to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on his 90th birthday. Place: Woodmancote Cheltenham Gloucestershire England

NHM-WP01.008.118    Correspondence:   Swan Sir Joseph Wilson  1913.01.08   Telegram from Sir Joseph Swan, from Purley, Surrey, 8 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday. Place: Purley Surrey England

NHM-WP01.008.120    Correspondence:   Threlfall Richard, Tyndall John, Aitken John,  1899.03.21   Letter from R Threlfall to A. R. Wallace, from Edgbaston, 21 Mar 1899 re light and the blue colour of sea water, work by Tyndall and Aitken, experiments with distilled water, scattering of light by fine particles. Place: Edgbaston Birmingham West Midlands England

NHM-WP01.008.122    Correspondence:   Union of London Spiritualists, Alcock Edgar Rush-  1913.01.09   Letter from Union of London Spiritualists, Muswell Hill, 9 Jan 1913, to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on his 90th birthday; signed Edgar Alcock-Rush, Hon.Sec. Place: London

NHM-WP01.008.124    Correspondence:   Wallace J E, Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace David,  1913.02.17   Letter from J E Wallace to A. R. Wallace, from La Crosse, Wisconsin USA, 17 Feb 1913, replying to A. R. Wallace's letter of Feb 2, re the possibility that the families might be related, giving details of his late father David Wallace and enclosing a photo of him. Enclosure: small sepia photo: portrait of an old bearded man seated on a chair on a lawn beside the wall of a house. He is smoking a pipe, and wearing waistcoat and watch-chain. The print is annotated on the back in two different hands: top: "David Wallace | Born Aug 14 1832 in England | Died, Dec 11. 1906 in La Crosse Wis. USA." and bottom "His son J. E. Wallace says the portrait of A. R.W. in the 'Illus. Lond. News' Sep. 28, 1912, is a better portrait of his father than any he has!" Envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace, Old Orchard, Broadstone, Dorset, England, with printed return address J E Wallace, Contractor, 1117 Division st, La Crosse, Wis. (Wisconsin, USA); postmarked La Crosse Wis. Feb 17, 1913, annotated in WGW's? hand in ink on the front "Photo of David Wallace said to be v. like A. R. Wallace's photo in Ill. Lond. News. Born 1832". See also WP1/8/124, letter from JEW to the "Illustrated London News". Place: Wisconsin USA

NHM-WP01.008.126    Correspondence:   Waters Alfred Hall  1913.01.06   Letter from Alfred Hall Waters, from Greenwich, London, 6 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace re the article "Levelling Up" in the "Daily News"; salaries of officials; poverty; alcoholism; lower death rates in Letchworth Garden City. Place: Broadstone Dorset London England

NHM-WP01.008.128    Correspondence:   Whitney Caspar, Humboldt Alexander von Baron  1913.01.18   Letter from Caspar Whitney from Bronxville, New York, 18 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace asking for his autograph to put into the writer's copy of a first edition of A. R. Wallace's " Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro"; the writer's own travels in South America and the Far East and two books on the same; hopes that A. R. Wallace's life will be extended for many years (from his ninetieth birthday). Place: Broadstone Dorset England New York USA

NHM-WP01.008.131    Correspondence:   Williamson G Bell  1913.01.10   Letter from G Bell Williamson, from Brighton, Sussex, 10 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace welcoming news of A. R. Wallace's forthcoming book on wages and poverty but doubting that it will do anything to change the nature of capitalists; evils of Capitalism, global capitalist control of food, fuel, transport communication and the press; advocating armed revolution. Stamped envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace at Wimborne, postmarked on the front Brighton 9 Jan 1913 and on the back Wimborne 11 Jan 1913 Place: Brighton East Sussex Broadstone Dorset England

NHM-WP01.008.133    Correspondence:   Wiltshire F H  1911.09.24   Letter from F H Wiltshire to A. R. Wallace, from Stamford Hill, 24 Sep 1911 re death of his friend Ellis? to whom A. R. Wallace had given a copy of his autobiography "My Life" two years earlier; the sale of the book enabled the widow to pay for medical treatment for herself; Wiltshire and his son now reading it with admiration for A. R. Wallace's views on socialism, vaccination etc. Place: London

NHM-WP01.008.135    Correspondence:   Yunck Oscar Albert?, Sims Thomas, Howell Florence,  1913.01.23   Part letter (last page or pages missing) from Oscar Albert? Yunck, from West Hampstead, London, 23 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace re his ninetieth birthday, congratulating him on reaching his centenary decade and on his achievements; mentioning the late Thomas Sims and his assistant Florence Howell. Place: Broadstone Dorset London England

NHM-WP01.008.137    Correspondence:   Riley James Whitcomb, Law James D fl., Dickey John M, Poe Edgar Allan  1904.03.21   Letter from John M Dickey pp James Whitcomb Riley, from Indianapolis, Indiana, 21 Mar 1904, to James D Law re the poem "Leonanie", annotated in the margin in J D Law's hand in ink "Dr. A.R. Wallace's letter to J. D. Law - March 5 1904" with a letter written on the back from James D Law, London 2 Apr 1904, to A. R. Wallace. Place: England USA Notes: This letter was transferred from papers re short publications by A. R. Wallace and has been added at the end of the numerical sequence: it is therefore out of alphabetical order.

NHM-WP02.006.003.01    Correspondence:   Cambridge Octavius Pickard, Wallace Violet Isabel  1913.12.15   Letter to Violet Wallace from Rev O. Pickard-Cambridge, from [Bloxworth] Rectory, Wareham, 15 Dec 1913, re the spider Friula wallacii named by him after her father A. R. Wallace, enclosing a reprint inscribed to her on the front cover; of his paper "On some new and little-known spiders" from Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 15 Dec 1896 including description and figure of F. wallacii; paper slip with instructions to Xerox letter and p. 1006 which may be in WGW's or another hand; envelope addressed to Miss Wallace at Old Orchard. Broadstone, postmarked 15 Dec 1913. Place: Wareham Dorset England Notes: In a modern (1998) envelope of unrelated miscellanea including proofs of "Is Mars Habitable" when listed; paper slip enclosed in reprint in an unknown hand "Xerox only letter & p. 1006 total of 2 exposures if possible." See note to WP6/5/4 ( Proofs of A. R. Wallace's "Darwinism, an exposition....") re Xerox process and speculative dates.

NHM-WP06.008.024.[03]    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel  1905.07.28--1905.10.02   Stamped brown envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace at Broadstone (Dorset) from "The Fortnightly Review", London, postmarked 8 Sep 1905, annotated on the back in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Life | Proofs | Vol 1", which contained these proofs when listed.

NHM-WP06.008.027.[01]    Correspondence:   Shirra W L , Wallace Alfred Russel  1899.02.08--1899   Letter from W L Shirra to A. R. Wallace from Port Street Stirling (Scotland), 8 Feb 1899, with names and some details of members of a Wallace family in the Stirling area c.1748-1864; 2 ff. Place: Scotland Notes: Annotations on envelope are, in ink in Wallace, A. R. Wallace's? hand "Shirra's information" and in pencil in A. R. Wallace's?or son William's? hand "re Wallace family in Stirling" 3 folios plus envelope which enclosed both letter and note when listed.

NHM-WP06.008.028    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel ,Sims Thomas ,Wallace Mary Nee Webster  1904.03.02--1904   Letter from A. R. Wallace to Mr (Thomas) Sims, from Broadstone Dorset, 2 Mar 1904, thanking him for a parcel of letters, agreements, bills and drawings, noting that some of his own (A. R. Wallace's) drawings have been marked "W.G.Wallace" by his sister in error, and that two or three drawings by his brother (Herbert?) may be suitable to reproduce in his book; will offer material relating to the Webster's to his sister-in-law Mary in California; sends Thomas a cheque for £5, last book enabled him to clear a debt on the Broadstone house; asks about identity of an old house in a pencil drawing by his brother. Place: California USA Dorset England

NHM-WP06.009.001.[03]    Correspondence:   Poynting J H  1907.11.01   Stamped envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace from "The Auk", Cambridge, Massachusetts USA, date illegible, annotated on the back in A. R. Wallace's? hand " Is Mars Habitable? | Author's corrected Proofs | (Prof Poynting's letter)". Notes: All found when listed in a 1998 envelope (destroyed) with apparently unrelated miscellanea including lists compiled by WGW of A. R. Wallace's library.