NHM-WP17.008.007    Photo:    1893?--1893?   Undated black and white photographic print approximately 9.5 cm x 7.5 cm showing part of a lake between slightly rolling wooded or grassy hills in the foreground and a long almost flat-topped slope in the background. Faint pencil outline on the back with "upper lake" written in A. R. Wallace's? hand on the lake area and "dam" written in the foreground. The scene is near Lough Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland (see WP17/8/8). Undated. Possibly c. 1893, when A. R. Wallace was writing on glaciation (See WP1/2/39, letter to Violet Wallace 8 October 1893). Photographer unknown. Place: Ireland Notes: In envelope marked "Geological & Glacial | Photos - | Ananda C. Swamy. | Aarschlucht" when listed.

NHM-WP17.008.009    Photo:    1893?--1893?   Sepia photographic print approximately 11 cm x 8 cm showing a rock surface with plants in the background, a flat area in the foreground and smooth rounded hollows in the middle ground and to the viewer's left, with several large rounded boulders to the right, left and in the background. Annotated on the back in ink in the same unknown hand as that on the photos of corrugated basalt at Siebengebrige and others in WP17/8 "Glacier garden Lucerne." Undated. Possibly c. 1893, when A. R. Wallace was writing on glaciation (See WP1/2/39, letter to Violet Wallace 8 October 1893). Photographer unknown. Place: Lucerne Switzerland Notes: In envelope marked "Geological & Glacial | Photos - | Ananda C. Swamy. | Aarschlucht" when listed.

NHM-WP07.043.[03]    Note:    1894   Ms in A. R. Wallace's hand headed "Economic and Social Justice", 42 numbered folios exercise book paper written on one side only, annotated in pencil in another? Hand with page numbers from 278-319, annotated in an unknown hand on first page in pencil "Baldry", annotated on back of last page in an unknown hand in ink "Corrected proof Return[ed] to A.D. Innes esq 31 &32 Bedford Street Strand" and in pencil in WGW's? A. R. Wallace's? hand "Mss Economic & Social Justice". (Published in April 1894 in Vox Clamantium; The Gospel of the People pp. 166-197; See Smith: S498)

NHM-WP15.002.004    Printed:    1895   Reid, Clement, "The origin of Megaceros-Marl" reprinted from the Irish Naturalist, May 1895. 2 pages. Place: Ireland Notes: Almost certainly sent to William Mitten by the author. No cover.

NHM-WP01.002.132    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Mitten William, Fisher Mrs  [1896]   Post-script to a letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, (from Parkstone, Dorset?) undated, 1896? re proposed visit to Barnstaple area, North Devon, rather than Switzerland "next year". Place: Devon Dorset England Notes: Written on a small folded sheet of white paper. Addressee obvious from context. Originally dated 1905? based on position in bundle, but references to A. R. Wallace's holiday in North Devon in 1897, in letter to Violet dated 11 Jun 1897 (WP1/2/ 90) make 1896 more likely.

NHM-WP15.002.007    Printed:    1896   Sir John Evans, Miss E Morse, Clement Reid, E P Ridley and H N Ridley, "The relation of Palaeolithic man to the Glacial epoch. Report of the Committee ... appointed to ascertain by excavation at Hoxne the relations of the Palaeolithic deposits to the boulder clay, and to the deposits with arctic and temperate plants." Printed report from the British Association meeting, Liverpool 1896, section C. 16 pages with diagrams including a fold-out diagram of geological strata at Hoxne brickyard. Sent to William Mitten by Clement Reid. Place: Hoxne Suffolk England

NHM-WP04.003.001    Photo:    [1897--1900]   Corfe View, A. R. Wallace's house at Parkstone, Dorset: sepia photographic print c. 1897? approximately 11 cm x 8.5 cm labelled on the bottom edge in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Corfe View", showing a view of a three storey brick house, apparently of the back, with a lower balconied wing on the right, an attached conservatory or glass-house in the foreground and two steeply gabled attic rooms with ogee shaped frames at the top of the windows. A bush or low tree is in front of a trellis on the right of the conservatory. The print is slightly out of focus. Annotated on the back in A. R. Wallace's? and possibly another hand in blue and lead pencil "Wanted (illegible word) Wednesday | 4466 | I | 26471 | Dorset". Date based on letters mentioning and from or to Corfe View. Place: Parkstone Dorset England Notes: Placed in secol sleeve 17/4/03 FORMERLY IN Miscellaneous papers of A. R. Wallace: WP2; In envelope annotated in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Kelly's Photos of Corfe View" when listed. Possibly photographed by (Mr?) Kelly.

NHM-WP04.003.003    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Kelly ?  [1897--1900]   Stamped envelope approximately 12.5 cm x 9.9 cm addressed to Dr A R Wallace, Parkstone, Dorset, postmarked Bradford 2 Sep 1900 and annotated on the front in A. R. Wallace's hand "Kelly's photos of Corfe View." Place: Parkstone Dorset England Notes: Four small photographic prints were contained in the envelope when received: two identical images of Wallace's house "Corfe View" , one of his house "Old Orchard" and one of a building bearing the sign "Free Library". These were firstly recorded separately as (Old REFS) WP2/10, 11, 12 and 13. A reproduction of the photo of the Free Library, Neath, designed by A. R. Wallace 1847 faces p. 246, vol. 1 of "My Life"; the print has been transferred to New Series/Item WP6/8, papers re A. R. Wallace's autobiography.

NHM-WP17.013.[01]    Photo:    [1897--1899]   Undated sepia photograph approximately 15 cm x 10.5 cm showing a profile view of a (white marble?) statue of Charles Darwin (in the Museum of Oxford?), bearded, bareheaded, wearing a cloak, looking slightly downward, standing with feet and hands crossed; above a (marine?) animal skeleton, on a plinth attached to the supporting column of an arch. Notes: Dates based on a letter from A. R. Wallace to Violet, 1896 (WP1/2/77) and note of reminiscences of J D Hooker, Nature, 22 Jun 1899, at http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin/texts/more_letters/mletters1_02.html

NHM-WP17.013.[03]    Photo:    [1897--1899]   Small folder made from blue-green letter paper labelled in A. R. Wallace's? WGW'S? hand (or both) on one side "Photos | Darwins Statue | Stillmans House | &c" and on the other "Darwins Statue | The Museum - Oxford -"; when listed it enclosed the 2 photos of a statue of Charles Darwin above, a photograph of W J Stillman, and other unrelated photos, print and Ms, (Old refs WP3/53-62) which have been relocated. Notes: Dates based on a letter from A. R. Wallace to Violet, 1896 (WP1/2/77) and note of reminiscences of J D Hooker, Nature, 22 Jun 1899, at http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin/texts/more_letters/mletters1_02.html

BL-Add.Mss46418-46419    Draft:    1898   Autograph draft for "The Wonderful Century" (1898). Vols. V, VI (ff.249, 231). 'The Wonderful Century', first version published 1898. Insertions in the printed text suggest that this MS. was completed before 18 Feb. 1898. Preface, etc., index, and chapter 18, 'Vaccination a Delusion, its Penal Enforcement a Crime', are wanting; a note in Wallace's hand on 46419, f. 126, directs the printer to set up Chapter 18 from a pamphlet, presumably that produced by Wallace in 1897. Autograph draft showing revision and rearrangement by the author and printer's marks.

NHM-WP02.006.003.02    Correspondence:   Macdonald E? Miss  1898--1914   Letter from Miss E? Macdonald to Violet Wallace from Broomhill, Sheffield 19 Jan 1914 enclosing copies in Miss Macdonald's hand of seven letters from A. R. Wallace to her, 1898-1912, may have time to copy more later in the term; envelope addressed in Miss Macdonald's hand to Violet Wallace, Old Orchard Broadstone, Dorset, stamped, postmarked Sheffield 20 Jan 1914; annotated on the front in ink in another hand (WGW's?) "A.R.W. to Miss Macdonald". Copy letters comprise: 1898.01.23 From Parkstone, Dorset 23 Jan 1898 thanking her for a gift of shortbread on his birthday, which he unfortunately cannot eat but others will appreciate. 1906.12.25 From Broadstone, Wimborne (Dorset) 25 Dec 1906 thanking her for gift of an almanack and wishing her a happy new year 1908.02.21 From Broadstone, Wimborne (Dorset) 21 Feb 1908 thanking her for the new year gift of an almanack; apologies for lateness, due to not knowing where she went for her holidays; weather; his daughter Violet's lack of work. 1908.12.26 From Old Orchard, Broadstone, Wimborne 26 Dec 1908 thanking her for her Christmas present; description of his investiture with Order of Merit at home by the King's equerry Colonel Legge; intends to wear it once in public at a lecture he is to give at the Royal Institution "on the world of life" on 22 Jan 1909, offers tickets for herself and a friend. 1909.02.28 From Old Orchard Broadstone Wimborne (Dorset) 28 Feb 1909 re a press cutting sent by her on the spiritualist medium consulted by (Abraham) Lincoln; an American book recently published on Lincoln's spiritualism. 1911.12.24 From Old Orchard, Broadstone, Dorset 24 Dec 1911 thanking her for the gift of a book by G K Chesterton; A. R. Wallace's and Chesterton's appreciation of Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"; Christmas greetings. 1912.12.26 From Old Orchard Broadstone Dorset 26 Dec 1912 thanking her for the gift of a book; has just finished writing "Social Environment and Moral Purpose" which he thinks will interest her; quotes from a 1905 postcard re fate of nations in the new year Place: Sheffield Yorkshire England Notes: Although the copies were made c 1914 the first date in each case has been recorded as the date of the original letter. These were sent to Violet after her father's death, and were probably provided to assist James Marchant in writing "Letters and Reminiscences..." (1916); and have been included in this series on that assumption. At first listing they were among apparently unrelated papers in original box 2.

NHM-WP07.043.[04]    Printed:    1898   "Spiritualism and Social Duty" by A. R. Wallace; pamphlet, reprint from "Light" of his address to the International Congress of Spiritualists, 23 Jun 1898. See WP7/81 for another copy.

NHM-WP07.043.[06]    Printed:    1898   "New Thoughts on Evolution, being the views of [A. R. Wallace] as gathered in an interview by Harold Begbie", re the possibility of Creation not being inconsistent with Evolution; reprint from "The Daily Chronicle", small pamphlet with red cover, no date (originally published in the Daily Chronicle Nov 1910, see Shermer p. 388)

NHM-WP07.056.[02]    Printed:    [1898]   Printed [page proofs?] of "Romanes versus Darwin. An episode in the history of evolution and its theory", by A. R. Wallace, pp. [300] - 316.[S389: Fortnightly Review 40 (n.s.; 46, o.s.): 300-316 (1 Sept. 1886: no. 237, n.s.)] . Both (056.01 and 056.02) in a folder made from a 1908 envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace from the RS, labelled on back in A. R. Wallace's (and WGW's?) hand "Wallace and Romanes. | Physiological selection" (See also corrected proofs of a review by T D A Cockerell, 1898, of a book on Darwinism by G J Romanes, in WP12). Notes: Although the work by Romanes is obviously NOT strictly in this category the two papers obviously belong together and so have been put here. Smith bibliog: S389. Romanes Versus Darwin. An Episode in the History of the Evolution Theory. Fortnightly Review 40 (n.s.; 46, o.s.): 300-316 (1 Sept. 1886: no. 237, n.s.).

NHM-WP12.015    Printed:    1898   Reprint, "Eleventh Lecture | The Elimination of the Unfit as illustrated by the introduced sparrow, Passer domesticus" by Hermon C Bumpus 1898; annotated by A. R. Wallace. Notes: Source for Bumpus: www.rpts.tamu.edu/pugsley/Bumpus.htm

NHM-WP01.006    Correspondence:   Birch Frederick R, Wallace Alfred Russel  1899--1910   Letters from Fred Birch: Letters and postcards from Fred Birch to A. R. Wallace and an enclosed? photograph, comprising one letter from Liverpool 1899, 4 letters and 2 postcards from Brazil Jan-Dec 1910, 1 envelope annotated in A. R. Wallace's or WGW's hand and one 1899 photograph of Fred Birch. Frederick Birch lived in Liverpool as a young man and may have been born there. He apparently met A. R. Wallace some time in the 1890's and later emigrated with his wife to Brazil, where he worked as a professional collector of natural history specimens c. 1910. No other information about him has been found. Place: Brazil Liverpool England

NHM-WP07.052.[05]    Note:    1899   Ms in A. R. Wallace's hand headed "Safety for Powder Magazines | To the Editor of the Daily News" Undated, 3 folios of lined exercise book paper, signed. (Found further down pile and inserted here). 1 piece. (SEE SMITH S562a. The Storage of Gunpowder [letter to the Editor referring to Wallace's c1882 idea that explosives might safely be stored under water]. The Daily Chronicle (London) no. 11562: 11c (24 March 1899).

NHM-WP07.084.[02]    Printed:    1899   Copies of three numbers of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 1899 and loose front and back cover without inner pages, of a duplicate, comprising: 2. "Journal of the Society for Psychical Research" no CLVII Vol IX, March 1899, front cover signed by A. R. Wallace and annotated in his hand " Podmore's replyÂ…", containing "Clairvoyance and Poltergeists", letter to the Editor by Frank Podmore in reply to A. R. Wallace, pp. 37-45, with pencil markings and comments in A. R. Wallace's hand in text and margins. Notes: All covers are in extremely poor condition, fragile and acidic with crumbling edges.

NHM-WP07.084.[04]    Printed:    1899   Copies of three numbers of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 1899 and loose front and back cover without inner pages, of a duplicate, comprising: 4. Loose front and back covers of a copy of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, No CLVI, Vol. IX, Feb, 1899, annotated on the front cover at the top in ink A. R. Wallace's hand "p. 22- (31?) Mr. Wallace reply to Mr. Podmore. | Duplicate. | Numerous cases of Clairvoyance, and Disturbances of various kinds" ; the inside back cover includes notices of forthcoming meetings, including the reading of a paper by Mary H Kingsley on apparitions in West Africa on Friday, 10 Mar . Notes: All covers are in extremely poor condition, fragile and acidic with crumbling edges.

NHM-WP05.002    Legal:    [1900]   Legal document relating to the Land Nationalisation Society.

NHM-WP06.006.003    Photo:    [1900]   Images reproduced in 'The Gorge of the Aar and its Teachings' in A. R. Wallace, "Studies Scientific and Social" (London 1900) vol. 1, pp. 129-145, figs 23 and 24, comprising: 1. Proof sheet? with black and white photographic image approx. 7 cm x 10 cm showing a narrow wooden walkway with railings running through a steep narrow gorge; annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand in ink "'Studies' vol. 1. chap. V. p. 127" and "The Aarschlucht" and in pencil "Chap VI". Reproduced in vol. 1, ch. VI, p. 132, undated, attributed to Coomara Swainy (sic, for Coomaraswamy). 2. Black and white photo approximately 18.5 cm x 25 cm mounted on very slightly larger card, undated, with no annotations, showing the Terminal gorge of the Gorner Glacier, Zermatt. 3. Small sepia or faded black and white, partly hand- coloured photo approximately 9.5 cm x 7 cm showing the terminal gorge of the Gorner Glacier, Zermatt. The central section showing the plug of ice at the far end of the gorge is tinted blue. Reproduced in vol. 1, fig 24, facing p. 136. Undated, attributed to Percy Kendall. This is a reduced version of no 2 above. Place: Zermatt Switzerland Notes: "The Gorge of the Aar and its Teachings" was first published in "Fortnightly Review" August 1896.

NHM-WP06.008.020    Photo:    1900?--1900?   View of Nutwood Cottage, Godalming. Undated (c. 1900?) sepia photograph approximately 12.5 cm x 10 cm; annotations on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's and another? hand include [cop] initials | 175 screen | 1 full page very outside measurement 3 3/4 x 6/ 3/8 | keep in cover". Reproduced in "My Life" (1905) vol. 2 facing p. 103, unattributed. Notes: Date based on letters re sale of/money from and dates when working on autobiography

NHM-WP04.004.001    Note:    [1901]   Plans and elevations for A. R. Wallace's house "Old Orchard" at Broadstone, Dorset; undated, on one sheet of translucent paper in ink and colour wash, very damaged, annotations include, in pencil, "Dr Russell [sic] Wallace | Parkstone" at top left and "J Donkin- archt | Bournemouth" in pencil at bottom right; three dimensional view of the house in the centre almost torn away. Place: Broadstone Dorset England

NHM-WP04.004.004    Note:    [1901--1902]   Ground floor plan for cottage at Broadstone, in ink on white squared paper, with notes and instructions in A. R. Wallace's hand and apparently drawn by him. Place: Broadstone Dorset England