NHM-WP06.008.021.[10]    Photo:    1905?--1905   18 annotated proofs of illustration used in A. R. Wallace, "My Life" (London 1905), some captioned in A. R. Wallace's hand, others with printed captions, incomplete set enclosed in cardboard cover; comprising: 10. Proof illustration in black and white of a cave entrance, captioned in A. R. Wallace's hand "Porth y Ogof. Vale of Neath." Place: Amazon Derbyshire England Essex Godalming Surrey Leicester Leicestershire Shropshire Usk Wales Notes: Proof pages approximately 23 cm x 17 cm. All illustrations reproduced in Wallace, Alfred Russel, "My Life" (London 1905).

NHM-WP06.008.021.[12]    Photo:    1905?--1905   18 annotated proofs of illustration used in A. R. Wallace, "My Life" (London 1905), some captioned in A. R. Wallace's hand, others with printed captions, incomplete set enclosed in cardboard cover; comprising: 12. Proof illustration in black and white of a waterfall, with the printed caption "Llanhaidwr Waterfall." Page and vol. numbers added in A. R. Wallace's hand. Place: Amazon Derbyshire England Essex Godalming Surrey Leicester Leicestershire Shropshire Usk Wales Notes: Proof pages approximately 23 cm x 17 cm. All illustrations reproduced in Wallace, Alfred Russel, "My Life" (London 1905).

NHM-WP06.008.021.[14]    Photo:    1905?--1905   18 annotated proofs of illustration used in A. R. Wallace, "My Life" (London 1905), some captioned in A. R. Wallace's hand, others with printed captions, incomplete set enclosed in cardboard cover; comprising: 14. Proof illustration in black and white of a house, printed caption "'Nutwood Cottage,' Godalming." Page and vol. number added in A. R. Wallace's hand. Place: Amazon Derbyshire England Essex Godalming Surrey Leicester Leicestershire Shropshire Usk Wales Notes: Proof pages approximately 23 cm x 17 cm. All illustrations reproduced in Wallace, Alfred Russel, "My Life" (London 1905).

NHM-WP06.008.021.[16]    Photo:    1905?--1905   18 annotated proofs of illustration used in A. R. Wallace, "My Life" (London 1905), some captioned in A. R. Wallace's hand, others with printed captions, incomplete set enclosed in cardboard cover; comprising: 16. Proof illustration in black and white of a cottage and outbuildings, with a river in the foreground and wooded hills behind. Printed caption " My Birth-Place. Kensington Cottage, Usk." Page and vol. number added in A. R. Wallace's hand. Place: Amazon Derbyshire England Essex Godalming Surrey Leicester Leicestershire Shropshire Usk Wales Notes: Proof pages approximately 23 cm x 17 cm. All illustrations reproduced in Wallace, Alfred Russel, "My Life" (London 1905).

NHM-WP06.008.021.[18]    Photo:    1905?--1905   18 annotated proofs of illustration used in A. R. Wallace, "My Life" (London 1905), some captioned in A. R. Wallace's hand, others with printed captions, incomplete set enclosed in cardboard cover; comprising: 18. Proof illustration in black and white of two fish, the top image captioned in A. R. Wallace's hand "Cichlostoma severum. Fam Cichlidae. | (one third natural size)" and the bottom "Cynodon scombroides. Fam. Characinidae (one fourth natural size.)" Place: Amazon Derbyshire England Essex Godalming Surrey Leicester Leicestershire Shropshire Usk Wales Notes: Proof pages approximately 23 cm x 17 cm. All illustrations reproduced in Wallace, Alfred Russel, "My Life" (London 1905).

NHM-WP15.003.005    Photo:    1905?   Portrait: Small faded sepia photo undated and without annotations, of an elderly man with short white beard, apparently William Mitten but possible A. R. Wallace, seated at a bench in a greenhouse, facing camera, seen through the open door of the building.

NHM-WP01.007    Note:    [1906]--1910   Letters from Sydney Skertchly 1889-1910: Skertchly was an English born Botanist and Geologist; arrived in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, from Hong Kong in 1891 and was Assistant Government Geologist for the Geological Survey of Queensland 1895-97. He lectured widely and wrote on natural history and science for the "Brisbane Courier". (Source: Bright Sparcs Website). Letters and notes to A. R. Wallace from S B J Skertchly comprising WP1/7/003 to WP1/7/009 Place: Australia

NHM-WP15.003    Printed:    1906--1907   Printed Obituaries and memoirs of William Mitten 1906 and 1907, by W B Hemsley, E M Holmes and W E Nicholson

NHM-WP01.007.009    Note:    1906?   "Dream Gardens " by "Duan Utan" (Sydney Skertchly?) from Journ. Hort. Aust. vol I, (1906) p. 50; Ms copy possibly made at a later date, in Skertchly's hand, seven folios; envelope annotated in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Skertchley's [sic] 'Dream Gardens' a delightful rhapsody, of memoirs of 'Gardens' in many lands." Place: Australia Notes: Sketch by "Duan Utan" was earlier assigned to series of works by writers other than A. R. Wallace and appended to this item 21 Jan 2004. PJL

BL-Add.Mss46428    Draft:    1907.10   Autograph draft for "Is Mars habitable" (1907). Vol. XV (ff . 259). 'Is Mars Habitable?', published 1907. Viz.:- (a) Autograph draft, apparently completed 1-19 October 1907, and wanting frontispiece, last paragraph of the preface, and the letter from J. H. Poynting printed on

NHM-WP01.001.120    Miscellaneous:    [1907]   Part of a rough plan in ink, apparently an outline of rooms or house, ("Old Orchard", Alfred Russel Wallace's house at Broadstone, Dorset?) marked "N.E. (corridor?)", drawn on one side of a piece of linen paper apparently cut from a map; filed with and possibly originally enclosed in one of Alfred Russel Wallace's letters to his son William. Place: Dorset England Notes: Numbered in [120] pencil by PJL 2002. Records 118-123 inclusive placed together in melinex folder 18/11/02.

NHM-WP01.001.122    Miscellaneous:    [1907]   Two plans in pencil on one sheet of translucent waxed paper, 40cm X 24 cm, showing house rooms, marked "Ground floor" and "Upper floor" respectively, with annotations in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand. Probably of "Old Orchard", Alfred Russel Wallace's house at Broadstone, Dorset; filed with and possibly originally enclosed in one of Alfred Russel Wallace's letters to his son William. Place: Dorset England Notes: Numbered [122] in pencil by PJL 2002. Condition Good but fragile because of nature of paper. Folded several times. Records 118-123 inclusive placed together in melinex folder 18/11/02.

NHM-WP01.001.124    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace William Greenell, Skeels E R S,  [1907]   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his son William, from Broadstone, Dorset, Friday (April 5 1907?) re visit to lawyer in Chancery Lane and asking William to reserve hotel rooms. Place: Dorset England Notes: On a small sheet of folded paper. Annotated in pencil in Mrs Richard Wallace's hand "April 5/07"

NHM-WP06.009    Note:    1907   Papers re Is Mars Habitable? Papers re Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1907, "Is Mars Habitable", (Macmillan and Co. London 1907) including corrected proofs, a letter and 2 envelopes in which papers were stored when listed.

NHM-WP15.003.002    Printed:    1907   Obituary of William Mitten by E M Holmes, reprinted from The South-Eastern Naturalist 1907 in The Transactions of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies, 1907. Includes photographic portrait of Mitten standing, bearded, wearing a tweed suit and velvet smoking cap, holding a plant and magnifying glass, with a rose hedge in the background. (First copy of 2).

NHM-WP08.003.001    Note:    1907?--1907?   Translucent brown envelope labelled in A. R. Wallace's? hand "A few letters of 'Spruce' | Some written some copied." undated. c.1907? Notes: This envelope contained not letters by or to Spruce but 2 folios of ms notes by A. R. Wallace on corrections to maps, and for this reason has been treated as a separate piece. Enclosed when listed in a brown envelope postmarked "9 Sep 90" (1990) addressed to Mr & Mrs R. R. Wallace, with address crossed through, labelled in Richard Wallace's hand "Corrections to Map | Equatorial S America"; destroyed 15/10/03

NHM-WP01.001.141    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace William Greenell, Wallace Violet,  1908   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his son William, from Broadstone, Dorset, Monday (?1908) re proposed sale by Lord Wimborne of land surrounding A. R. Wallace's house and possible multiplicity of buildings and people, proposal that the family combine to buy extra land near house. Place: Dorset England Notes: Annotated in pencil in Mrs Richard Wallace's hand: "122B?"

NHM-WP07.102    Note:    1908--1909   "The Remedy for Unemployment" by A. R. Wallace, papers comprising proof pp [1] -22 of part 1 and two letters to him re the paper 1908-1909, with annotated envelope, and one copy of each of the numbers of the journal Socialist Review June and July 1908 containing parts 1 and 2 of the article.

NHM-WP08.003.002    Note:    1908--1908   Two folios of ms notes by A. R. Wallace, one headed "Further errors to be corrected in map of Equatorl. S. America" and one headed "Corrections on map of Rio Pacimoni". Undated (1908?) Place: South America Notes: Spruce, Richard, ed. A. R. Wallace, (1908) Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes, vol. 1, facing p. 448, map of the River Pacimoni.The corrections have been made in the publication. The notes were enclosed in a small envelope labelled in A. R. Wallace's? hand "A few letters of 'Spruce' | Some written some copied"; see separate record.

NHM-WP08.003.006    Draft:    1908--1908   Corrected page proofs all headed "Historical account of the Herbarium", 2 folios, pp 19-20 and 61-62, both quoting letters by Richard Spruce. From Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes by Richard Spruce (ed.and condensed by A. R. Wallace Dec. 1908)

NHM-WP11.001.[01]    Note:    1908--1909   Biographical notes on Charles Darwin, ms in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand, headed "1st Draft | Charles Darwin …", 17 folios lined paper, numbered [1]-7 and 10-19 (i.e. ff. 8 and 9 apparently missing) Notes: Two copies of the cutting from the Daily Mail, filed in another wallet with unrelated papers, have been added to this file. Very worn

NHM-WP11.001.[03]    Note:    1908--1909   "Today's Centenaries | Charles Darwin" by A. R. Wallace, a version of the Ms above; press cutting from "The Daily Mail" 12 Feb 1909; another copy

NHM-WP11.001.[05]    Note:    1908--1909   Envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace, postmarked 17 Sep 1908, annotated on the back in ink and blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's (and WGW's?) hand "Appreciation of Darwin | 1st Draft : Written for 'Daily Mail' - too long. | Cuttings &c Darwinism" containing the mss and some of the press cuttings above when listed.

NHM-WP11.001.[07]    Note:    1908--1909   Small paper label in A. R. Wallace's hand "Darwin's Centenary".

NHM-WP12.027    Printed:    1908   "The New Church Magazine", no 320, August, 1908 , including "William Allingham's Diary" by George Trobridge and "Modern Spiritualism" by H. Stanley Redgrove, both with markings and marginal annotations in A. R. Wallace's hand; annotated in pencil on front cover in an unknown hand (WGW's?) "See pp. 352-5-6"; a page marker between pp. 356 and 357 is marked in pencil in the same? hand "Xerox only 352-357 (3 exposures)". Notes: See note to WP6/5/4 (Proofs of ARW’s "Darwinism, an exposition....") re Xerox process and speculative dates.

NHM-WP09.006    Note:    1909   Papers re lectures on Darwinism

NHM-WP11.005    Printed:    1909   Order of the Proceedings at the Darwin Celebration, Cambridge 1909; "Order of the Proceedings at the Darwin Celebration held at Cambridge June 22- June 24 1909, with a Sketch of Darwin's Life." (CUP, Cambridge 1909); bound printed book approx 27 cm x 21 cm with Cambridge University coat of arms on the cover and illustrations including portraits of Charles Darwin;

NHM-WP07.102.006    Printed:    1909?   Small pamphlet, Pass On Pamphlets No. 8, Alfred R Wallace, "The Remedy for Unemployment", (The Clarion Press, London); 24 pages; approx 18 cm x 12 cm; undated, c 1909; modified reprint of the article of the same title printed in two parts in "The Socialist Review", June (pp. 310-20) and July (pp. 390-400) 1908. See also letter to the editor of the Clarion from Skelborn (old ref WP3/41). 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.

BL-Add.Mss46429-46431    Draft:    1910   Autograph draft for The World of Life" (1910). Vols. XVI-XVIII (ff. 367, 317, 299). 'The World of Life' , published 1910. Autograph draft showing signs of revision by the author and printer's marks, apparently completed between summer 1909 and November 1910. The text was further revised between the completion of this draft and publication. Title-page, index, etc., preface, lists of contents and illustrations, are wanting, as are figures 1, 2 and 8, which are all taken from unpublished photographs of Malaya and the E. Indies.

NHM-WP06.010    Note:    1910?--1911   Papers re The World of Life: Papers re Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1910, "The World of Life; A Manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind and Ultimate Purpose", Chapman & Hall, Ltd., London, Dec. 1910, including letters, reviews, and papers re payment. Notes: See Smith S732 for details of subsequent editions and reprint 1916.

NHM-WP06.010.002    Correspondence:   Cavit Charles, Ashby Joseph  1911   Letter from Chas G Cavit to A. R. Wallace, from Marly, Argyll Road, Boscombe, 21 [Feb] 1911, annotated at the top in ink in A. R. Wallace's? hand "A Swedenborgian Review"; attached by paper tapes to pages 88-90 of "The New-Church Magazine", Feb 1911, containing a review by Joseph Ashby of A. R. Wallace's book "The World of Life" (London, Dec 1910). Place: Boscombe Dorset England

NHM-WP06.010.004.[01]    Printed:    1911--1912   Cutting made by The Authors Clipping Bureau, Boston, Massachusetts from the "Times", Denver, Colorado, 29 Mar 1911 of a review with no by-line of A. R. Wallace's book "The world of life. A manifestation of creative power, directive, mind and ultimate purpose" (New York, 1911) Place: England USA Note: Torn

NHM-WP06.010.004.[03]    Printed:    1911--1912   Cutting made by The Authors Clipping Bureau, Boston, Massachusetts of a review with no by-line of A. R. Wallace's book "The world of life. A manifestation of creative power, directive, mind and ultimate purpose" (New York, 1911) from the Louisville, Kentucky "Courier Journal" 17 Jun 1911; annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand "A very good & fair review". Place: England USA Note: Torn

NHM-WP06.010.004.[05]    Printed:    1911--1912   Cutting made by The Authors Clipping Bureau, Boston, Massachusetts of a review with no by-line of A. R. Wallace's book "The world of life. A manifestation of creative power, directive, mind and ultimate purpose" (New York, 1911) from "New York American" 16 Sep 1911.The attachment is annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand "Good". Place: England USA Note: Torn

NYPubLib    Note:    1912.06.03   Wallace's contribution to The Modern Historic Records Association

NHM-WP01.008.023    Correspondence:   Brooke ?H, Brooks Barbara  [1913]   Letter from Barbara Brooks, undated (Jan 1913?), from Kensington, London, to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on his 90th birthday. Place: London England

NHM-WP02.001.006    Photo:    [1913]   Portrait photo of A. R. Wallace in old age, seated on a chair in a greenhouse? with a wooden bench in the background on which stand pots of flowers including a begonia and a daisy; faded sepia photographic print, undated, approximately 16.5cm x 11cm.

NHM-WP02.006    Note:    1913--1916   Papers re J Marchant’s "Letters and Memoirs": Papers c. 1913-1916 relating to the creation and publication by James Marchant of "A. R. Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences" (1916. Cassell & Co. Ltd., London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne) including draft texts, correspondence between Marchant and A. R. Wallace's children William and Violet Wallace and others; copies of letters written by A. R. Wallace; a Ms chronology of his life; reminiscences written by family, friends and colleagues and lists of his publications, library and correspondents. WP2/6/1 Papers re proposed biography of A. R. Wallace WP2/6/2 Chronology and outline of A. R. Wallace's life WP2/6/3 Reminiscences, letters, drafts and related papers WP2/6/4 Marchant Publisher's Papers WP2/6/5 Marchant Miscellanea

NHM-WP02.006.003    Note:    [1913--1916]   Originals and copies of reminiscences of A. R. Wallace by family, friends and colleagues, with related correspondence and papers including copies of some letters by him and a reprint in which Friula wallacii, a spider named after him, is described; most or all published or referred to in Marchant (1916).

NHM-WP02.006.005.01    Draft:    [1913--1916]   Undated ms in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand headed "The chief Humanitarians of the Nineteenth Century, in the opinion of A. R. Wallace" listing 10 names beginning with Robert Owen of New Lanark. Notes: Placed here because in proximity to other papers re the publication of Marchant 1916 when listed and not obviously belonging elsewhere, but the location is dubious. PJL 2003

NHM-WP02.006.005.03    Correspondence:   Marchant Sir James  [1913--1915]   Undated unsigned rough note in pencil with "A.R.W's Letters to his family" written on one side in WGW's? hand, a note in James Marchant's hand on the other side " Not to copy. | I send them to ask you whether his answers are available? Would they have been long and intimate letters | J M" with the following written beneath this in WGW's? hand: "Dr B Hollander Dr Littledale Rollo Russell G W Barrett only ones likely". Both notes on this side have been crossed through. Notes: When listed this was included in a large modern (1995) envelope (destroyed) labelled in RW (And Mrs R Wallace's? ) hands "Typed letters A. R. Wallace to Violet and Will | Reminiscences of R B Rathbone | [Ditto] WG & VI for Marchants Book".

NHM-WP12.032    Printed:    1913   "Continuity", BAAS Birmingham 1913, Presidents address by Sir Oliver J Lodge, printed pamphlet without cover, pp. [1]-40, annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand with passages marked in blue pencil.

NHM-WP16.001    Correspondence:   Wallace William Greenell, Wallace Violet Isabel  1913--1950   Approximately 55 letters to William Greenell Wallace with some copies of replies by WGW and some enclosed or related print, letters, and press cuttings; from individuals and organisations re the death of his father A. R. Wallace, some referring to copies of his letters (see also WP2/4: papers re James Marchant and "Letters and Reminiscences"); from publishers and authors re quotation from his published work and from prospective German biographer Eugen Hornung; a few letters refer to the disposal of his papers or effects (see also items WP16/2 and WP16/3). Correspondents include the Admiralty, The British Council, C R Enock, F Darwin, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Oliver Lodge, Arabella Fisher, A P Sinnett, H Stanley Regrove, E M Palser, E B Poulton, Macmillan & Co, George Allen & Unwin, the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Geographical Society, George Philip & Son Ltd, E F Lissen, William Hodge & Co and Irving W Knobloch. The letters have been sorted alphabetically by correspondent (corporate names where appropriate) and then by date. Notes: Most enclosed in crumbling cardboard folder labelled in print "Wychwood" (WGW's son Richard Wallace's grammar school) in WGW's hand on one side and in blue pencil on the other in WGW's hand "Re A.R.W."; personal information from R Wallace 12 June 2003; folder destroyed. A few letters found in other locations have been added. Most letters have NOT been read in detail for content and are described only briefly. PJL 22 Jan 2004

NHM-WP18.024    Note:    [1913]--[1951]   Cover of a copy of "Trade Catalogue of the 'London Editions' of Bibles, Prayers, &c." (Eyre & Spottiswoode, London Bible Warehouse, London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Melbourne, Sydney and New York, undated) with spine title "The London trade Catalogue of Bibles, Prayers, Books etc." Notes: When listed enclosed obits of and scientific papers sent to William Mitten together with unrelated photographs and a press cutting, all now transferred to appropriate series. Dates based on periods when WGW might have been sorting A. R. Wallace's papers, but very speculative.

NHM-WP18.030    Note:    [1913]--[1970]   Label " Authors Separate of Original Communication to Linnean Society."; large block capitals in black ink in an unknown hand, undated, on a piece of cream card approximately 16.5 cm x 4 cm. Notes: Found loose in boxes; not recorded earlier but probably original box 4. Almost certainly not created by the NHM and therefore possibly either by A. R. Wallace or a member of his family; to separate books? For an exhibition?

NHM-WP16.001.070    Correspondence:   Williams James Leon, Wallace Alfred Russel  1913?--1913   Undated (c.1913?) draft letter in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand on 4 folios of exercise book paper, to "Dear Sir" re variation and natural selection, beginning "It is not easy to make the ordinary reader understand such as question as to variation as you put to me…" unsigned and with corrections; possibly to J Leon Williams (See WP16/1/69) about July 1913; enclosed when listed in an envelope postmarked 25 Jun 1913 addressed to W G Wallace (A. R. Wallace's son William) annotated on the back in pencil in WGW's hand "To J Leon? Williams (Biol)" together with a stamped envelope with a return address: WP16/1/69 (2 and 3) Notes: The hand in which the draft is written may be WGW acting as amanuensis though in my opinion it is A. R. Wallace's. Both are very similar - see WGW's ms sketch of his Father's life, in WP2/4, written on the same type of paper. Broken at folds and acidic; empty envelope addresses to Williams was partly sealed when examined but easily unstuck, probably pressure of folding sealed it.

NHM-WP16.003.003    Note:    1913?--1914?   One folio CC, headed "Dr. Wallace's Library", p. 3; duplicate copy of p. 3 of 10 in a list of A. R. Wallace's books (see WP16/3/2)

NHM-WP02.006.002.02    Note:    [1914--1915]   Undated Ms in ink in William Greenell Wallace's? hand headed "Outline of Dr. A.R. Wallace's life" tabling events by date up to 1909 with page refs to A. R. Wallace's autobiography "My Life". 3 numbered ff. approx. 33 cm x 20.5 cm with brass paper clip. Notes: See WP2/6/2/. Though the hand here is smaller it's possible both tables are by the same person, though one may be by WGW and one by VIW. Neither hand resembles that of James Marchant.

NHM-WP02.006.003.05    Draft:    [1914--1916]   "Home Life of Dr. A. R. Wallace"; undated TS with cover page annotated in WGW's? hand in pencil "Copy of home Life Chap". 5 numbered pp. , 6 ff. Notes: An edited version of this is published in Marchant under the chapter heading "Home Life".

NHM-WP16.005.[01]    Note:    [1914]   TS and Ms lists and notes apparently compiled by William Greenell Wallace comprising: 1. "List of Works by A. R. Wallace | Books"; CC, listing books by A. R. Wallace 1853-1907, 4 folios including top sheet with title and back sheet, tied with green ribbon at one corner. Notes: When listed all except list of letters in "Nature" were in a 1998 envelope (destroyed) with some apparently unrelated miscellanea including proofs of "Is Mars Habitable"; post-it note label in Richard Wallace's hand included "Lists compiled by WGW"; list of letters etc in Nature, was in envelope addressed to Mrs A R Wallace, loose in original box 3. See also WP2/6, papers re James Marchant's "Letters and Memoirs . . .", for which these lists may have been compiled.