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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).

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NHM-WP06.008.021.[11] 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: 11. Proof illustration in black and white of a waterfall, captioned in A. R. Wallace's hand "Ysgwd Gladys ["Gladys" below "Einon Gam" deleted] 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).

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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).

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NHM-WP06.008.021.[13] 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: 13. Proof illustration in black and white of a house, with printed caption "'Old Orchard,' Broadstone.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).

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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).

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NHM-WP06.008.021.[15] 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: 15. Proof illustration in black and white of a house, printed caption "'The Dell,' Grays, Essex." Page and vol. number added in A. R. Wallace's hand. Stamped "First Proof - 9 Sep 1905". 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).

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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).

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NHM-WP06.008.021.[17] 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: 17. Proof illustration in black and white of part of a letter and cartoon illustration of a man with a cat, printed caption "My Last Letter from Dr. Purland." Annotated at the top in A. R. Wallace's hand "My Life (Dr. Wallace)". Printed "First Proof - 7 Sep 1905". 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).

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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).

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NHM-WP06.008.021.[19] 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: 19. Coarse acidic card folder labelled in A. R. Wallace's hand "'My Life' | Proofs of Illustrations | (not complete)" 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).

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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.

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NHM-WP01.001.118 Miscellaneous: 1906 Small map, (probably of "Old Orchard", Alfred Russel Wallace's house at Broadstone, Dorset) 27cm x 20.5 cm in ink on translucent waxed paper showing pasture, woods, orchard, field boundaries, heath, footpath? and road to Poole; filed with and possibly originally enclosed in one of Alfred Russel Wallace's letters to his son William. Place: Dorset England Notes: Numbered [118] in pencil by P J Lucas, 2002. Records 118-123 inclusive placed together in melinex folder 18/11/02.

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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

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NHM-WP08.001.006 Printed: 1906--1906 "An Account of the Mosses and Hepatics of the North Riding of Yorkshire" (Hull 1906) by Matthew B Slater, reprinted from J G Baker, "North Yorkshire," part 33 of "Transactions of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union" 1906; pp [i-xiv, [1]-671; list on first title page in A. R. Wallace's? hand of pages on which Spruce specimens appear and crosses against their description in the text; 23 cm x 15 cm; annotated on the front cover in ink "With Compts and best regards from M.B.S." Place: Yorkshire England

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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

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NHM-WP01.007.008 Correspondence: Skertchly Sydney Barber Josiah 1906? Stamped envelope, postmark year illegible, addressed to A. R. Wallace at Broadstone, labelled on the back in WGW's? hand "Skertchley [sic] - Letters Criticisms &c &c" and on the front and back, crossed out, "Hamer & co, Welsh Mutton &c Bills"; when listed this contained some of the Skertchly letters, an apparently unrelated printed review of A. R. Wallace's "Darwinism…" by J A Thomson and a reprint of a letter by A. R. Wallace c. 1867 on the feeding habits of birds and caterpillars. Place: Australia

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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

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NHM-WP12.023 Printed: 1906? "Co-operative Emigration", undated press cutting (1906?), letter to the Editor from E A Phipson commenting on A. R. Wallace's views on the subject.

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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

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NHM-WP01.001.119 Miscellaneous: [1907] Very small (8.5cm x 4 cm) scrap of tracing paper showing plan in pencil of W.C., landing and two bathrooms (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 [119] in pencil by P J Lucas, 2002. Rough edges. Records 118-123 inclusive placed together in melinex folder 18/11/02. RECORD MODIFIED 13/10/03

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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.

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NHM-WP01.001.121 Miscellaneous: [1907] Small map (of land around "Old Orchard", Alfred Russel Wallace's house at Broadstone, Dorset?) in ink (19.5cm x 12.5cm) on tracing paper, with annotations in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand, showing the old orchard, house and old cottage, old road, proposed new road, road to Poole and boundaries with lengths marked in chains; filed with and possibly originally enclosed in one of Alfred Russel Wallace's letters to his son William. Place: Dorset England Notes: Numbered [121] in pencil by PJL 2002. Condition Fair but fragile because of nature of paper. Records 118-123 inclusive placed together in melinex folder 18/11/02.

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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.

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NHM-WP01.001.123 Miscellaneous: [1907] Small map (probably of "Old Orchard", Alfred Russel Wallace's house at Broadstone, Dorset) 23.5 cm x 20 cm in ink on translucent waxed paper, annotated in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand, showing orchard, woods, houses, garden, road, line of water pipes and boundaries; filed with and possibly originally enclosed in one of Alfred Russel Wallace's letters to his son William. Place: Dorset England Notes: Numbered [123] 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.

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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"

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NHM-WP01.001.138 Printed: [1907] Undated and untitled newspaper cutting approximately 7cm x 7cm with the by-line "X.Y.Z.", a joke about a Judge and a black thief, marked in the right hand margin with vertical pencil-lines. Probably an enclosure to his letter to William of 18 Mar 1909. Place: Dorset England Notes: Probably an enclosure to his letter of 18 Mar 1909 (see WP1/1/147) and placed within it. Annotated [WP1/1/138] [Encl to Mar 18, 1909?] in pencil by PJL, 2002

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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.

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NHM-WP12.025 Note: 1907 Printed advertisement by Harper & Brothers for a book, "Worlds in the Making" by Svante Arrhenius, including quotations from the author's preface dated 1907; annotated in ink in AA. R. Wallace's hand. Notes: This was inserted in the centre of J C Browne's pamphlet "Materialism" when listed.

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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).

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NHM-WP15.003.003 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. (Copy 2 of 2)

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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

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BM-2004,0107.22-Coins-Medals Miscellaneous: 1908 Plaster model for the obverse of a medal, showing Bust of Alfred Russell Wallace to front, bearded. Inscribed LINN: SOC: LONDON: 1858-1908 WALLACE and F. BOWCHER 1908. Diameter 174 mm, thickness 16 mm

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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?"

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NHM-WP01.008.021 Correspondence: Brierley Wynford 1908 Circular hand-made card "Life is a Spiral" from Wynford Brierley, congratulating A. R. Wallace on his Order of Merit, 9 Nov 1908

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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.

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NHM-WP07.102.003 Printed: 1908 Journal "The Socialist Review: A Monthly Review of Modern Thought", vol. 1 no 4, Jun 1908 (The Independent Labour Party, London); including "The Remedy for Unemployment - I" by A. R. Wallace, pp. 310-320, approx 24.5 cm x 15.5 cm with red cover; signed on the front cover, top right, Alfred R Wallace. Notes: See Old ref WP2/24, containing part 2

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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.

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NHM-WP08.003.003 Draft: 1908 Ten proof sheets of maps of the Amazon corrected and annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand, some with date stamps from Mar-Oct 1908, all in an envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace at Broadstone from the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, postmarked 7 Jan 1909, annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand in ink on the back "Maps | Used in Spruce's 'Notes' | Showing Stanfords almost incredible repeated blunders!" Notes: Formerly among unrelated papers. Maps need unfolding and larger container

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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)

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NHM-WP08.003.007 Note: 1908--1908 Ms in A. R. Wallace's hand headed "Journey of Richard Spruce in Equatorial America . . . An introduction to 'Hepaticae Amazonicae… Revue Bryologique 1886 [sic] (part) Translated from the French by A . R. Wallace" , 25 pages on 7 folded folios of lined blue paper; Ms in A. R. Wallace's hand "Notes by Two German botanists on the Pastaza River and Canelos region", 4 unnumbered pages (1 folio) of the same type of paper; all in a small brown envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace at Broadstone, postmarked Bristol 26 Nov 1906, annotated on the back in ink, and lead and blue pencil in A. R. Wallace (and WGW's?) hand "Spruce | My own Translation of the French 'Precis d'un Voyage'| Also notes by 2 German Botanists in April 1894".

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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

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NHM-WP11.001.[02] 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; full page, with a piece by H Perry Robinson on the centenary of the death of Abraham Lincoln is printed in the next column.

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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

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NHM-WP11.001.[04] 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

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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.

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NHM-WP11.001.[06] Note: 1908--1909 Note/folder in A. R. Wallace's hand in ink on one side "Daily Mail | Centenary of Darwin" and inside in blue pencil "2 Duplicates | Exchange for Part 21 not sent …", probably at some time enclosing the mss Biographical notes on Charles Darwin, No 1 above.

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

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NHM-WP12.026 Printed: 1908 Press cutting, re the faults of socialism, n.d., marked up in blue, of part (no end or beginning) of a letter to the Editor?; in envelope annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand in ink "Letter in Clarion for April 3d 1908 | From a noncon. Minister. | Stating objections to 'Socialism' very well & clearly - but all answered in 'Bellamy' | Revd S. Skelborn, Mt Pleasant, Congregational Church - Glossop."

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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.

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NHM-WP02.005 Printed: 1909--1988 Biographical Miscellanea: Miscellaneous press cuttings, print and mss relating to the life of A. R. Wallace comprising an astrological chart of his character 1909, a printed subscription form for a memorial fund 1916 and a 1988 press notice of the 75th anniversary of his death.