NHM-WP06.010.005.[01]    Correspondence:   Curtis Brown & Massie Moffatt Yard & Co  1910.01.02   Papers re New York edtion of and payment for "The World of Life" comprising: Letter from Curtis Brown & Massie to A. R. Wallace, from 5 Henrietta Street Covent Garden London 2 Jan 1910 [sic: 1911?], 1 f. TS, enclosing WP6/10/5.2 Notes: Letter from Curtis Brown and Massie 2 Jan [1910] refers to two enclosures and "the agreements"; only one is present - presumably one copy was signed and returned to the publishers. This letter and enclosure was found in box 3 of the papers and has been inserted here.

NHM-WP06.010.005.[05]    Correspondence:   Curtis Brown & Massie Moffatt Yard & Co  1911.05.23   Papers re New York edtion of and payment for "The World of Life" comprising: Letter from Curtis Brown & Massie to A. R. Wallace, from Covent Garden 23 May 1911

NHM-WP06.010.005.[07]    Correspondence:   Curtis Brown & Massie Moffatt Yard & Co  1910.12.20   Papers re New York edtion of and payment for "The World of Life" comprising: Brown envelope labelled in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Agreement with Moffatt Yard & Company New York for American edition of 'The World of Life' (dated -December 20th 1910) Curtis Brown and Massie agents"; enclosing 1 and 2 when listed.

NHM-WP07.052.[04]    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel  1882.06.22   Letter from George T Lambert pp Sir Thomas Brassey, The Admiralty, 22 Jun 1882, to A. R. Wallace, enclosing a (copy of a?)memo dated 20 Jun 1882 by F A Herbert

NHM-WP07.055.[02]    Correspondence:   Price Bonamy, Mallet Sir Louis  1879.07.10   Letter from J? B Price to A. R. Wallace from 29 Westbourne Terrace [London] 10 Jul 1879

NHM-WP07.055.[04]    Correspondence:   Price Bonamy, Mallet Sir Louis  1879.07.15   Letter J? B Price to A. R. Wallace from [London?] 15 Jul 1879, 2 ff.

NHM-WP07.075.[01]    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel  1895.03.05--1895   A. R. Wallace's views on causes of poverty, papers comprising: 1. Letter to the Editor by A. R. Wallace dated 25 Feb headed "Alleged increase in poverty", press cutting from "The Daily Chronicle" 5 Mar 1895.

NHM-WP07.102.002    Correspondence:   Hughes W R, Wallace Alfred Russel, Mills Herbert V, Eeden Frederik Willem van  1908.05.28   Letter from W R Hughes to A. R. Wallace from Mansfield House University Settlement, Canning Town, 28 May 1908, re A. R. Wallace's article in the "Socialist Review" on unemployment; [Herbert] Mills and J Bruce Wallace on the subject; socialist communities; van Eeden's paper on Walden, Holland. Place: London England Notes: Enclosed in envelope annotated in ink in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand on one side "The Remedy for Unemployment | Criticisms &c." and on the other "The Remedy for Unemployment, WP7/102/7, when listed.

NHM-WP07.106.[04]    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel  1909.02.06   Papers re the use of flying machines in war comprising: 4. letter from Herbert E J Taylor to A. R. Wallace from Weston-super-Mare 6 Feb 1909 re A. R. Wallace's letter in the Daily News and "aerial navies".

NHM-WP07.108.[01]    Correspondence:   Marshall Mrs  1909.01.27--1909   Letter re Woman Suffrage from A. R. Wallace, Broadstone, to Mrs. Marshall

NHM-WP07.111.[01]    Correspondence:   Brodribb C H  1911.12.29   Letter signed C H Brodribb to A. R. Wallace from "The Times" 29 Dec 1911 thanking him for his letter apparently re the Insurance Act. Notes: See also WP1/8/39, letter from W A Davidson on the subject Dec 1911. Smith: S691. Dr. Russel Wallace on Insurance Act [letter]. The Daily Chronicle (London) no. 15581: 4d (25 Jan 1912)

NHM-WP07.112.[01]    Correspondence:   Schafer Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-  1912.09.30--1912.10.03   Letter from J M Dent (publisher) to A. R. Wallace from London, 3 Oct 1912, sending a proof of his article (unnamed, but almost certainly "The nature and origin of life") Notes: Letter and proof were in the same document wallet with other papers by and relating to short works by A. R. Wallace, when listed. The article mentions Dr Schafer so almost certainly the article published in "Everyman", a penny literary weekly begun in 1912 by J M Dent & Son, publishers of the book series of the same title. The first issue, for 12 [sic] October 1912, included a contribution from A. R. Wallace. Source: electronic finding aid for J. M. Dent & Sons records, at www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/j/J.M.Dent_and_Sons.html. Smith: S700. The Origin of Life. A Reply to Dr. Schaefer. Everyman 1(1): 5-6 (18 [sic] Oct. 1912).

NHM-WP08.003.005    Correspondence:   Prain Sir David, Wallace Alfred Russel, Spruce Richard, Hooker Sir William Jackson, Borrer William  1908.11.16--1908   Form-letter or certificate in print and MS from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew 16 Nov 1908 acknowledging receipt from Dr A R Wallace, OM, FRS of "8 volumes (bound) of Spruce's botanical Mss (Plantae Amazonicae, 2 vols.; Plantae Andinae, 2 vols.; Miscellaneous notes, journals etc., 2 vols.; memorandum book, containing his journal from Tar[a]poto [Tarapoto] to Baños). Also numerous original letters to Spruce from Sir W. J. Hooker and others; Rough notes for the Introduction to his large work on Hepaticae, etc.; and a complete series of letters from Spruce to W. Borrer, 1843-48." Signed by D. Prain (Director). Printed header show the Royal coat of arms above the words "Royal Botanic Gardens Kew" in large Italic? script. Place: Peru

NHM-WP11.004    Correspondence:   Darwin Charles Robert, Cockerell Sir Sydney Carlyle  1909.03.23   Letter from Sydney C Cockerell to A. R. Wallace from Fitzwiliam Museum, Cambridge, 23 Mar 1909, re safe arrival of ms of A. R. Wallace's 1908 address to the Linnean Society and 8 autograph Darwin letters, for the Darwin Centenary exhibition in June. Place: Cambridge Cambridgeshire England Notes: Annotated in ink in an unknown hand "8 first letters from Darwin sent, for the Darwin Centenary - Cambridge".

NHM-WP12.003.001    Correspondence:   Pascoe Francis Polkinghorne  [1913].07.15   Letter to Mr Wallace (WGW?) from F. P Pascoe, from 12 Newborough Rd Acton, London July 15 (no year - 1913?) saying that he encloses a paper which might interest him. Notes: If by Francis Pascoe d 1893 the letter must be to A. R. Wallace, but probably from Pascoe's son, written to WGW and enclosed in envelope dated [1913?] addressed in the same hand: see WP12/3/2. Letter and envelope were in separate document wallets when listed but in context and given hand almost certainly belong together. The paper originally enclosed with the letter may be "Catalogue of Zygopinae" one copy of which was in the same wallet as the letter when listed.

NHM-WP13.001.014    Correspondence:   Hampden John, Wallace Annie née Mitten  1886.12.06?--1886?   Letter to Annie Wallace from John Hampden Croydon Dec 6, no year (1886?) re her husband A. R. Wallace's conduct in the Flat Earth wager; 2 ff. (WP1/17/17) Notes: Formerly in unlabelled wallet of miscellaneous unrelated papers

NHM-WP15.001.001    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Harvey William Henry, Hooker Sir Joseph Dalton  1853.05.23   Letter from W H H (William Harvey), to Hook. fil. (Joseph Hooker) from TCD (Trinity College, Dublin) date stamped 23 May 1853; full text is: My dear Hook. fil. | I find these Hepaticae among the New Zealand Greenosperms [sic] which I have just finished. | Send them to Mitten, that's a good kitten! | Yours Affy W.H.H. Place: Dublin Ireland New Zealand Notes: Found with Wallace family correspondence (WP1/3) but not entered in ms contents list. See letter from W B Turrill to W G Wallace from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 22 Apr 1948, Old Ref WP1/3/65, identifying this letter.

NHM-WP15.001.003    Correspondence:   Mitten William, Wallace Annie née Mitten, ? Sally, ? Lizzy  1896.08.09   Letter from William Mitten to his daughter (Annie W?) from Hurstpierpoint, 9 Aug 1896, re her journey (to Switzerland?) arrival and planting of flowers from her, the identity and growing conditions of plants including pulsatilla, campanula, anemone vernalis, anemone baldensis, and plants found around Zermatt, the Rhone glacier and Wengern, asking her to collect seeds of any dandelion-like plants and purple vetch; visit by aunts Sally and Lizzy; new local burial grounds. Place: Hurstpierpoint West Sussex Switzerland Notes: When first listed this was in a brown cardboard box in the form of a book, titled "Letters" on spine, containing miscellaneous apparently unrelated letters and photos; it seems more appropriate here.

NHM-WP15.001.005    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Mitten William, Wallace William Greenell  1897.07.21   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his father-in-law William Mitten, from Parkstone, Dorset, 21 Jul 1897, re sending Jamaica and Singapore moss; plants in flower in A. R. Wallace's pond and garden, letters from son William, who is working on a railway (in America?); purchase of land by the Parish (at Hurstpierpoint?); convolvulus. Place: Dorset England Jamaica USA Singapore Malaya Notes: When first listed this was were in a brown cardboard box in the form of a book, titled "Letters" on spine, containing miscellaneous apparently unrelated letters and photos; it seems more appropriate here.

NHM-WP16.001.001    Correspondence:   Admiralty the, Benham Ernest E  1934.02.15--1934   Letter to William Greenell Wallace from the Admiralty, London 15 Feb 1934; signed Ernest E Benham. Place: London England

NHM-WP16.001.003    Correspondence:   British Association for the Advancement of Science, Howarth O J R  1930.04.15--1930   Letter to William Greenell Wallace from the British Association for the Advancement of Science, London 15 Apr 1930, signed O J R Howarth; annotated by WGW Place: London England

NHM-WP16.001.006    Correspondence:   Jonathan Cape Ltd, Davis Rupert Hart-  1940.04.05--1940   Letter to William Greenell Wallace from Jonathan Cape Ltd., publishers, signed Rupert Hart-Davis, director, from London 5 Apr 1940; annotated by WGW Place: London England

NHM-WP16.001.009    Correspondence:   Cockerell Theodore Dru Allison  1913.12.16--1913   Stamped envelope addressed by T D R Cockerell to W. G Wallace, Old Orchard, Broadstone, Dorset, postmarked Boulder, Colorado 16 Dec 1913; annotated in pencil WGW's? hand " About A.R.W." and "(Biol.)"; containing when listed a letter from Cockerell of same date and proof of an obituary of A. R. Wallace by him (See WP16/7 and WP16/8) Place: Colorado USA

NHM-WP16.001.011    Correspondence:   Darwin Sir Francis  1914.09.11?--1914   Postcard to William Greenell Wallace from F Darwin, from Gloster [sic] 9? Jun? 1914? with thanks for letters. Place: Gloucester Gloucestershire England Notes: Date inferred from postmark, which is partly obscured

NHM-WP16.001.013    Correspondence:   Enock C R  1914.03.18--1914   Stamped envelope addressed in C R Enock's hand to William Greenell Wallace Old Orchard, Broadstone, Dorset, postmarked Northwood 18 Mar 1914; annotated in blue pencil in WGW's? hand "Auto" Place: London England Notes: See letter WP16/1/12