NHM-WP13.001.012    Printed:    1885.08.18   Printed pamphlet. 1 folio, headed "To A.R. Wallace, of Nutwood Cottage, Frith Hill, Godalming, Surrey", by John Hampden, Balham (London) August 1885, charging A. R. Wallace with cheating in their (1870) wager re the curvature of the earth. Annotated in ink in the bottom right corner on the first page "RW 18.8.85"; two minor corrections in pencil on the second page. Place: Godalming Surrey England Notes: Found in box 3 with unrelated papers and inserted here. See WP13/1/6 for another copy.

NHM-WP13.001.015    Correspondence:   Hampden John  1885.07.25--1885   Letter from John Hampden to A. R. Wallace's cook, from Balham, 22 Jul 1885 Notes: Formerly in an unlabelled wallet of miscellaneous unrelated papers

NHM-WP14.001.002    Printed:    1901.06.08   Cutting from the "Daily News" (London) dated in A. R. Wallace's hand August 6th 1901, of a letter to the editor from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, from Beaulieu, Hants, 4 Aug 1901 headlined "Fox-hunting near Cairo. | Trespass and Assault. | An Extraordinary Incident" re an incident involving regiments of the Cairo army garrison being assaulted by Blunt's servants while fox-hunting on his property near Cairo in his absence, supporting his servants action and deploring the behaviour of the 11th Hussars. The reverse shows items including a reports on the Earl's Court Exhibition and part of the latest mail and steamship news. Place: Egypt

NHM-WP14.001.004    Printed:    1908.10.09?   Cutting from "The Daily News" 9 Oct 190[8?] re allotments, smallholdings and self-sufficiency; Salvation Army's view. Notes: Found loose in original box 2 when listed. The Salvation Army began a smallholding scheme at Boxted in 1908: Source: http://www.boxted.org.uk/

NHM-WP14.001.006    Printed:    1910.04.21?   Cutting from " The Daily News", undated, [1910?] "Love and Humour | Mark Twain's Gentle Side", an obituary or memoir of Twain (Samuel Lanhorne Clemens) Place: USA Notes: Found loose in original box 2 when listed. Clemens died 21 April 1910.

NHM-WP14.002.002    Printed:    1887.10.24   Cutting from "The Times " (London) 24 Oct 1887 with part of a report on Pullman sleeping cars on trains in America, annotated a the top in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Pullman Cars". The reverse consists of Police reports from Mansion House and Bow Street (London, magistrates courts). Place: England USA

NHM-WP14.002.007    Printed:    1887.02.24   Cutting from "The Post", Washington, 24 Feb 1887, headlined "The New Labor Party. | Its principles outlined in a concise platform." The headline has been marked in red pencil. The reverse includes advertisements and a report on a Pensions Bill. Place: USA

NHM-WP14.002.013    Printed:    1887.01.00?   Undated (Jan 1887?) cutting from a (New York?) newspaper headlined "The Blizzard. | Thirty-five below Zero in Central New York" reporting on cold weather with Fahrenheit minimum temperatures registered in January at various locations in New York and Massachusetts including the Mohawk Valley, Hudson, Boston and Springfield. The reverse show parts of advertisements for houses in New York. Place: USA

NHM-WP14.002.019    Printed:    1887.02.06   Press cutting from the Washington "Post" Sunday Feb 6 1887, headlined "Important Trifles", reporting on society affairs including a piece which has been marked in blue pencil, on A. R. Wallace. Place: USA Notes: Enclosed in envelope labelled in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "interesting extracts America 1886-7" when listed.

NHM-WP14.002.021    Printed:    1887.02.05?   Press cutting from an untitled Washington D.C. newspaper Feb? 5, 1887 headlined "Society. | Reception to Prof. Wallace." reporting on a reception at the residence of Stilson Hutchins, with guest list. Place: USA Notes: Enclosed in envelope labelled in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "interesting extracts America 1886-7" when listed.

NHM-WP14.002.025    Printed:    1887.03.17   Cutting, unnamed Pennsylvania? paper 17 Mar 1887 headlined "Multiplex Personality" re the phenomenon of split personalities, with details of a Pennsylvania case and others and of scientific investigators. Place: USA

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-WP15.002.001    Printed:    1892.01.26   Reid, Clement, "On the natural history of isolated ponds" reprinted from the Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, vol. V, pp. 273-286, read 26 Jan 1892. Annotated in ink on the cover "W. Mitten, Esq ALS from the author". Place: Norfolk England

NHM-WP15.002.003    Printed:    1893.08.00   Reid, Clement, "A fossiliferous pleistocene deposit at Stone, on the Hampshire coast" reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society for August 1893, vol. XLIX pp. (326)-328. Place: England Hampshire Notes: Almost certainly sent to William Mitten by the author. No cover.

NHM-WP15.002.009    Printed:    1897.02.00   Reid, Clement, "Supplementary note (February, 1897) on the worked-flints from Blashenwell, near Corfe Castle" reprinted? from the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1897? Notes: Almost certainly sent to William Mitten by the author (see WP15/2/5 and WP15/1/4) and may originally have been enclosed with WP15/2/6.

NHM-WP15.002.011    Printed:    1897.08.00   Reid, Clement, "Pleistocene plants from Casewick, Shacklewell, and Grays" reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society for August 1897, vol. LIII, pp. (463)-464. Place: England Essex Lincolnshire Middlesex Notes: Almost certainly sent to William Mitten

NHM-WP15.002.013    Printed:    1898.06.00   Reid, Clement, "Further contributions to the geological history of the British flora" reprinted from the Annals of Botany, vol. XII, no XLVI, June 1898. Annotated in ink on the cover "W. Mitten, Esq (letters missing at tear) with the writer's kind regards" and in pencil in another hand "28 Jermyn St London S W". Place: Britain

NHM-WP15.002.016    Printed:    1895.07.03   Kirk, T, "The displacement of species in New Zealand" reprinted from Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, vol. XXVIII, 1896. Presidential address to the Wellington Philosophical Society, 3 Jul 1895. 27 pages. Annotated "from the author" in ink on the cover under a section which has been cut out (some words possibly missing) and in ink in a different? hand on the title page "William Mitten Esq. A.L.S. &c". Place: New Zealand

NHM-WP15.002.018    Printed:    1894.03.28   Notice, reprint or proof, 8 pages uncut, "Linnean Society of New South Wales. Abstract of Proceedings, March 28th, 1894" including a report on the annual general meeting of March 28, 1894 chaired by professor T W E David, lists of office bearers, papers read at the monthly meeting on the same date, donations received, and exhibits. Place: Australia Notes: Almost certainly sent to William Mitten.

NHM-WP15.002.020    Printed:    1894.05.30   Notice or reprint, 8 pages, "Linnean Society of New South Wales. Abstract of Proceedings, May 30th 1894" including a report on the monthly meeting of May 30th 1894 chaired by professor T W E David, papers read and exhibits. Place: Australia Notes: Almost certainly sent to William Mitten

NHM-WP15.003.001    Printed:    1906.10.00   Obituary of William Mitten by W Botting Hemsley, reprinted from the Journal of Botany, October 1906. 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.

NHM-WP15.004    Note:    1904.07.00   Ephemera associated or apparently associated with William Mitten comprising a plant specimen and a postcard view of land near Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex

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