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NHM-WP01.004.002    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace William Greenell, Wallace Violet Isabel?, Fisher Arabella Burton (née Buckley, Wedderburn Sir David  1879.05   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Waldron Edge, Friday morning, annotated in WGW's? hand in lead pencil May 1879; re Annie and son William's health; Sir David Wedderburn coming to visit to talk with A. R. Wallace about Java; new black kitten for Annie; outing with Violet to Selsdon, Hamsey Green and Riddlesdown, primroses in flower; Miss Buckley's anticipated visit. Place: Waldron Sussex England Java Notes: OLD REF WP1/19/14 and later WP1/21/2.
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NHM-WP01.004.003    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Palgrave Sir Reginald Francis Douce, Shaen Miss  1892.11.01   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Parkstone, Dorset, 1 Nov 1892 re Annie's safe arrival at Malvern; lunch with Sir Reginald and Lady Palgrave, the Watkins, Dr Allman and Miss Travers at Mr Dugmore's, A. R. Wallace left early as all talking "Primrose League"; arrangement of refurbished study; tea at Mrs Barnes's with the Nichols, Mrs Cooper, the Pocock family and Mrs Maitland; Violet doing gymnastics; the Huddlestones renting a house at Bournemouth; sending a copy of "Natural Science"containing photos of Coral reefs for Miss Shaen; will send "Fortnightly"on; London Library; Annie's health regimen; cooking. Place: Parkstone Dorset England Notes: "The Primrose League was a patriotic mass organisation nominally independent from, but allied to the British Conservative Party. During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, it politically mobilised large numbers of British women." (Matthew Hendley 1996,The Canadian Historical Association) Source: Web page.
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NHM-WP01.004.004    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Mitten William, Mitten Bessie, Allman Dr, Silk George C, Casey Comerford  1895.06.29   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Parkstone, Dorset, 29 Jun 1895 re arrival of her letter from Grindenwald, is preparing for journey (with her father William Mitten), asks her for guide book with maps and to ensure Mitten's boots well nailed, will visit Meiringen and other places on Annie's recommendation; Dr Allman's gardener to care for orchids in A. R. Wallace's absence; visit from Comerford Casey and his daughter, visit by George Silk; visit by a student of Spiritualism and his wife who went into a trance and behaved as various characters including A. R. Wallace's mother, photographs taken, possibly (a spirit) may be seen. Stamped envelope addressed to Mrs Wallace c/o W. Mitten, Hurstpierpoint Sussex, postmarked on the form Parkstone 29 Jun 1895. Place: Parkstone Dorset England Sussex Switzerland Notes: OLD REF WP1/19/6/1 and WP1/21/4 This letter was previously filed in a paper folder labelled in WGW's? hand "Examd Not wanted" almost certainly selected for J. Marchant when writing A. R. Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences" (London 1916).
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NHM-WP01.004.005    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Mitten William,  [1895.07.00]   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Hotel du Glacier Du Rhone (Switzerland), Wednesday evening, annotated in WGW's? hand in pencil "(July 1895)"; re sending a box of plants, including Gentians, gathered at the Furka Pass, detailed instructions for planting in greenhouse, plans to put out on new rockery; Pa (Annie's father William Mitten) finding lots of curiosities including miniature willows; plans to go on to Grimsel Hospice and Meiringen. Place: Switzerland Notes: OLD REF WP1/19/18 and WP1/21/5
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NHM-WP01.004.006    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Mitten William,  1895.07.07   Postcard from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Hotel de Balances, Lucerne, Switzerland, Sunday morning, postmarked 7 Jul 1895, re arrival and journey with her father (William Mitten) by steamer and train, food, and plans to go on to Stangerbourn; her father's health. Place: Brussels Belgium Switzerland Notes: Od ref WP1/19/6/2 and WP1/21/6. This letter was previously filed in a paper folder labelled in WGW's? hand ""Examd Not wanted" almost certainly selected for J. Marchant when writing A. R. Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences" (London 1916).
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NHM-WP01.004.007    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Mitten William,  1895.07.12   Postcard from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Grimsel Hospice, Thursday evening, postmarked 12 Jul 1895, re walk (with William Mitten) over Grimsel Pass, collecting Soldanellas and a Primula, plants boxed and sent off; plans to walk to Handeck to botanise and see a fine waterfall. Place: Switzerland Notes: Small piece torn out on right but text intact. OLD REF WP1/19/6/3 and later WP1/21/7. This letter was previously filed in a paper folder labelled in WGW's? hand ""Examd Not wanted" almost certainly selected for J. Marchant when writing A. R. Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences" (London 1916).
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NHM-WP01.004.008    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred RusselWallace Annie née Mitten, Mitten William  1895.07.[13]   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Hotel du Sauvage (Meiringen, Switzerland), Saturday evening, (Jul 13? 1895) re walk with her father (William Mitten) from Grimsel Hospice; visit to Reichenbach Falls and gorge of the Aar; sending a box of plants collected including a beech fern and some Asplenium septentrionale (fern); plans to go to Wengern and stay a week; Mitten collecting mosses; cost of postage of newspapers from England. Stamped envelope with printed illustration of Hotel du Sauvage and mountains, addressed to Mrs Wallace at Corfe View, Parkstone, Dorset, postmarked on the front Meiringen 14 Jul 1895 and on the back Parkstone 16 Jul (1895). Place: Switzerland Parkstone Dorset England Notes: Od ref WP1/19/6/4and WP1/21/8. This letter was previously filed in a paper folder labelled in WGW's? hand ""Examd Not wanted" almost certainly selected for J. Marchant when writing A. R. Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences" (London 1916).
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NHM-WP01.004.009    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Mitten William, Mitten Bessie, Wallace Violet Isabel?, Jekyll Gertrude,  [1895.07.00]   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Parkstone, Dorset, Saturday morning, annotated in pencil in an unknown hand "[?1896]" but more likely to be c. Jul 1895 (See other letters to Annie around this date), re plans for her father (William Mitten) and A. R. Wallace to tour in Switzerland after her return; expects many rare plants in the mountains, possibility of visiting Pilatus or Stanzenhorn, asks Annie to enquire about hotel rates there, and about a hotel in Lucerne for day of their arrival; regards to Bessie; asks for news of her tour and fellow-travellers; receipt of letter from Miss Jekyll enclosing an enquiry from another correspondent re effect of sea-air on plants at Lyme Regis; mosquitoes at Rhone glacier. Place: Parkstone Dorset Lyme Regis Dorset England Switzerland Notes: OLD REF WP1/19/7/1and later WP1/21/9.This letter was previously filed in a paper folder labelled in WGW's? hand "Excursions &c." almost certainly selected for J. Marchant when writing A. R. Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences" (London 1916).
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NHM-WP01.004.010    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Wallace Violet Isabel?, Gallienne Richard Le  1896.08.09   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Parkstone, Dorset, 9 Aug 1896 re her arrival at Adelboden and receipt of her letter and Violet's card; work in garden and orchid house, box of orchids expected from Singapore shortly, teaching Kate (housemaid?) how to care for orchids in his absence; his tickets and luggage labels (for Switzerland) have arrived with list of party, including Mr Le Gallienne, a poet and alleged Socialist; will stay on arrival at Hotel Victoria Davos Platz; looks forward to going on to Adelboden. Stamped letter addressed to Mrs Wallace, Pension Edelweiss, Adelboden Switzerland, postmarked on the front Parkstone 10 Aug 1896 and on the back Adelboden 12 Aug 1896, annotated in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Frumner"? Place: Parkstone Dorset England Switzerland Notes: Letter annotated in blue pencil at the top of first page, same hand as envelope? "[Garden & Switzerland". Sic, no close bracket. OLD REF WP1/19/3/4 AND later WP1/21/10. This letter was previously filed in a paper folder labelled in WGW's? hand "Gardening" almost certainly selected for J. Marchant when writing A. R. Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences" (London 1916).
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NHM-WP01.004.011    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Wallace Violet Isabel?, Wallace William Greenell, Armstrong Miss f, Dunn ? General, Sharpe J W, Jacomb?  1896.08.29   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Parkstone, Dorset, 29 Aug 1896, re his tour in Switzerland and return journey, hoping her trip was as enjoyable; orchids and garden generally in good condition but orchids from Singapore mostly dead and smashed due to bad packing; belladonna lilies in beautiful flower, greenhouse a bower; news of Miss Armstrong, General and Miss Dunn, Mr Sharpe and the Jacombs; letter from son William; love to Violet and all the Mitten family. Place: Parkstone Dorset England Switzerland Notes: OLD REF WP1/19/3/5 and later WP1/21/11. This letter was previously filed in a paper folder labelled in WGW's? hand "Gardening" almost certainly selected for J. Marchant when writing A. R. Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences" (London 1916).
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NHM-WP01.004.012    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Mitten William, Minchin ?, Casson Herbert N, D'Orsay Mrs ?, Kipling Joseph Rudyard, Linton ?  1897.09.28   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Parkstone, Dorset, 28 Sep 1897 re visits from Mr Murray the spiritualist and Mrs Sconce, news that General Minchin, a chess player, to live nearby; visit to Poole library; gardening supplies; sent off to Mr Casson for Mrs D'Orsay; repairs to kitchen; delivery of Cooperative coal; new (visiting?) cards; receipt of a letter from Rudyard Kipling expressing hope he can visit one day; Mr Linton's thanks to A. R. Wallace and Mitten for (specimen of?) grass. Place: Parkstone Dorset England Poole Dorset England Notes: OLD REF WP1/19/19 and later WP1/21/12.
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NHM-WP01.004.013    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Mitten Rose, Davies Mrs G, Ree Miss  1899.06.23   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Parkstone, Dorset, 23 Jun 1899 re letters from William; local walks; his health; visit from Miss Ree, a friend of Mrs G Davies of Godalming; Rose (Mitten) and Miss Horn at a local bazaar for E. Africans. Place: Godalming Surrey Parkstone Dorset England Notes: OLD REF WP1/19/26 and later WP1/21/13.
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NHM-WP01.004.014    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Wallace Violet Isabel?, Swinton A C  [1900.07.22]   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie, from Derby House, Hailsham Road Heathfield, Saturday evening ( annotated in an unknown hand "22 Jul 1900") re search for house and land (with Mr Swinton?) , nearby Mayfield prettier and less built on; have seen an ideal farm with barns and orchards, have contacted agent; can visit area again in daughter Violet's holidays if farm lost. Place: Heathfield East Sussex England Notes: Date is given in a pencil annotation. OLD REF WP1/19/4/3 and later WP121/14. This letter was previously filed in a paper folder labelled in WGW's? hand "Houses and building" almost certainly selected for J. Marchant when writing A. R. Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences" (London 1916).
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NHM-WP01.004.015    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Wallace William Greenell, Wallace Violet Isabel?, Meldola Raphael, Armstrong Miss  1903.12.08   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Broadstone, Dorset, 8 Dec 1903 sending zoo tickets for herself and Miss Armstrong; daughter Violet forwarding son William's letters; Meldola's letters; Australian water-lilies sent by A. R. Wallace to (Royal Botanic Gardens) Kew have flowered, requests Annie to visit Kew and ask if dying of off leaves normal; purchase of a barrel (144 pounds weight) of apples for 18 shillings and a chicken and duck from Roscommon, Ireland, advertised at 3/6 in "T.P's Weekly". Stamped envelope addressed to Mrs Wallace c/o Miss Armstrong, 18 Priory Road Bedford Park, London W, with illegible (Broadstone?) postmarks on the front and Paddington 9 Dec 1903 on the back. Place: Broadstone Dorset England Ireland London England Notes: OLD REF WP1/19/6/5 and later WP1/21/15. This letter was previously filed in a paper folder labelled in WGW's? hand "Examd Not wanted" almost certainly selected for J. Marchant when writing A. R. Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences" (London 1916).
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NHM-WP01.004.016    Correspondence:   Fisher Arabella Burton (née Buckley), Wallace Annie née Mitten, Fisher Dr,  1883.10.09   Letter from Arabella B Buckley to Mrs (Alfred Russel) Wallace from 1 St Mary's Terrace, Paddington W (London ), 9 Oct 1883, on mourning paper, re Arabella's engagement to marry Dr Fisher, father of Mrs Heriot and formerly of New Zealand. Place: London England New Zealand Notes: Annotated on the back in pencil in an unknown hand "A B Buckley | Fisher (author)"
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NHM-WP01.004.017    Correspondence:   Fisher Arabella Burton (née Buckley), Wallace Annie née Mitten, Macaulay Charles,  1883.11.07   Letter from Arabella B Buckley to Mrs (Alfred Russel) Wallace from Southsea, 7 Nov 1883, on mourning paper, re staying with the Charles Macaulay family; house-hunting; buying linen; baking. Place: Southsea Sussex England
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NHM-WP01.005.001    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Browne A G, Wood John George, George Henry  1886.10.23   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie, from New York hotel, (USA), Saturday 23 Oct 1886, continued Monday from 142 East 19th Street New York; re sea voyage from England, a week of rough weather and seasickness followed by five days of calm; ships food; passengers, one American an accomplished comic actor and singer; charades, concerts and deck quoits; chess with ships doctor and an American passenger; New York harbour, delay at customs, Mr Browne not there to meet him; hotel recommended by Mr Wood, hotel rooms and food; meeting with Mr Browne and transfer to his house; Mrs Browne; meeting with Mayoral candidate Mr George; visit to Central Park; plans to go to Boston on Thursday; Statue of Liberty very fine. Place: New York Boston USA
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NHM-WP01.005.002    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace William Greenell, Browne A G, Wallace Violet Isabel?  1886.10.29   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his son William from Quincy House hotel, Boston, 29 Oct 1886 re sea voyage from England, a week of rough weather and seasickness followed by five days of calm; ships food; passengers, one the brother of a pupil at William's school, Cranleigh, William can tell him that his brother was not seasick and has a good appetite; charades, concerts, deck quoits and chess on board; description of Statue of Liberty, New York harbour and ships, with small ink sketch of a paddle steamer; visit to Central Park with Mr Browne; autumn colours; country between New York and Boston, painted wooden houses like toys; Boston hotel and food; has telegraphed family at Hurst, will write to Violet next week. Place: Boston Massachusetts USA
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NHM-WP01.005.003    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet Isabel, Browne A G, Marshall J W, Nichols ?, Gray Asa,  1886.11.02   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet from The Quincy hotel, Boston, 2 Nov 1886 re his first public lecture, rehearsals at Loughton and Farncombe useful, cut sections following advice of Mr Marshall, enclosing a newspaper and press cuttings (not present), report on lecture brief because today is election day; tour along Hudson and to West Point Military college with Mr Browne, spectacular scenery including basalt cliffs "The Palisades" along the river (with ink sketch of cliffs with a sailing boat on the river below); colourful autumn foliage; details of hotel food including "shaker apple-sauce"; tram cars in Boston; meeting with Spiritualist doctor Nichols, invited to visit; plans to visit botanist Asa Gray at Cambridge tomorrow; discovery of a chess club and plans to play. Place: Boston Massachusetts USA
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NHM-WP01.005.004    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Noa Jessie Mrs, Mirlees ?, Holmes ?, Woodbury ?, Williams Mr, Wood ?  1886.11.14   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie, from Boston, 14 Nov 1886 re lack of news from her; weather; good audiences at the four lectures so far given; portrait artist Mrs Noa; unexpected meeting with Mr and Mrs Mirlees visiting the site of their son's death with their daughter; Dr Holmes the "one-kon-shay" man at dinner; meeting arranged with a lady spiritualist; any news of letting of house at Godlaming; requests Annie to send photos of ruined temples of Java given to A. R. Wallace by Mr Woodbury, wants to compare with models and photos of similarly decorated Mexican temples at Cambridge (Massachusetts) museum; American museums the finest in the world; plans to go to Baltimore and Washington with a return to Boston in between; opinion of A. R. Wallace's agent Mr Williams of earlier lecturer Mr Wood and his possible effect on A. R. Wallace's potential audience; Harvard College celebration. Place: USA Java Mexico
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NHM-WP01.005.005    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Mitten William, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Jekyll Gertrude  1886.11.21   Letter from A. R. Wallace to William Mitten, from Boston, 21 Nov 1886 with a postscript 22 Nov 1886; re lack of mail from England; success of his lectures at the Lowell Institute (Boston); returned today from visit to Williamstown, stayed with resident of College, gave two lectures, visited waterfall with Professor of Natural History, sending roots of a Lonchitis (fern) to Annie and seeds of a gentian (some for Miss Jekyll) to Mitten; any news of letting of house at Godalming; plans to be in Baltimore November 30 to December 10, contact at Peabody Institute; PS letter from his wife Annie posted 13 days ago just arrived. Place: USA England Notes: 2 folios, postcript (f2) torn.
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NHM-WP01.005.006    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Carter ?, Wallace Violet Isabel?, Wallace William Greenell, Mitten William  1886.11.22   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie, from Boston, 22 Nov 1886 re receipt of her letter after a month without news; visit to Williamstown, sending plants of fern polystichum acrostichoides growing near a waterfall there and some moth cocoons for son William, moths should emerge in spring, instructions for care; stay with Dr Carter, President of the (Williamstown) College, and his daughter, invitation to return to view spring flowers; orchids including Cypripedum spectabile common; has sent gentian seeds to her papa (William MItten); fears for his voice as has a cold, will wear respirator whenever going out, to travel 100 miles to lecture tomorrow; people becoming "oppresively kind and respectful." Place: Boston Williamstown Massachusetts USA
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NHM-WP01.005.007    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel  1886.11.00   Small cream envelope approximately 14 cm x 8cm annotated on the back in pencil in WGW's? hand "Boston", containing six press cuttings from: The Boston Daily Advertiser 5 Nov 1886, reporting on A. R. Wallace's lecture on the "Permanence of Oceans" at the Lowell Institute on 4 Nov 1886. The New York Daily Tribune 12 Nov 1886, headlined "Wind as a seed carrier" and reporting on papers read at a meeting of the National Academy of Sciences in Boston 11 Nov 1886, including A. R. Wallace's reading of his paper "The wind as a seed carrier in relation to one of the difficult problems in geographical distribution." An unnamed and undated paper (c.12 Nov 1886), headlined "The Academy of Sciences" reporting on papers read at a meeting of the National Academy of Sciences in Boston 11 Nov 1886 including A. R. Wallace's reading of his paper "The wind as a seed carrier in relation to one of the difficult problems in geographical distribution." The Boston Daily Advertiser 25 Nov (1886) headlined "Lowell Institute Lecture" reporting on A. R. Wallace's lecture on Darwinism at the Lowell Institute. The Boston Post (undated, but from internal evidence 25 Nov 1886) reporting on A. R. Wallace's lecture on Darwinism at the Lowell Institute. The Beacon, Boston 20 Nov 1886, with a general report on A. R. Wallace's lectures at the Lowell Institute. The Boston Herald, undated (c. 5 Nov 1886) headlined "Application of Darwinism", reporting on A. R. Wallace's lecture on the oceans, at the Lowell Institute on 4 Nov 1886. Place: Boston Massachusetts USA
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NHM-WP01.005.008    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet Isabel  [1886.12]   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet from Boston, Sunday (Dec 1886?) re a seance at which he observed the ghosts of an Indian man and a baby; travel by sleeping-car from Baltimore; white and black populations in Boston and Baltimore. Place: Boston Massachusetts USA Notes: On a small piece of paper torn from a larger sheet
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NHM-WP01.005.009    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel  [1886.12]   Small cream envelope approximately 14 cm x 8cm annotated on the back in pencil in WGW's? hand "Baltimore", containing two press cuttings from unnamed and undated newspapers, c. Dec 1886, one headed "The theory of development" and the other "Dr. Wallace at the Peabody", both reporting on a lecture given by A. R. Wallace at the Peabody Institute (Baltimore, Maryland) on the origin and use of colour in animals and plants. Place: Baltimore Maryland USA
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NHM-WP01.005.010    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace William Greenell, Morse Edward Sylvester, Marsh Othniel Charles  1886.12.00   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his son William. from Baltimore, Maryland, Dec (1886) re visit to Prof Morse at Salem, Morse's Japanese artefacts and books, his 15 year old son's weekly natural history club meetings and collections of flints, shells and insects; visit to Prof Marsh at Newhaven Connecticut, his fossil collection including great animal skulls and skeletons; explosion of rotten ostrich egg in Marsh's museum (Peabody Museum, Yale); A. R. Wallace's lecture to ladies' college at Poughkeepsie; route of travel to Baltimore via New York. Place: Japan USA
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NHM-WP01.005.011    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace William Greenell, Marsh Othniel Charles,  [1886.12]   Undated postscript headed "Baltimore" to a letter from A. R. Wallace to his son William? from Baltimore, Dec 1886? re Newhaven landscape; prof Marsh's 10 acre grounds and house of his own design with octagonal sitting room and rooms displaying china and artefacts including American Indian scalps and heads of animals shot by Marsh; Marsh's travels in the Rocky Mountains; Baltimore park, streets and buildings; Maryland a Slave state before the war, many people black, antics of black waiters in hotels. Place: USA
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NHM-WP01.005.012    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Wallace Violet Isabel?, Mitten William, Williams Mr, Harris Frank  1886.12.19   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie, from Boston, 19 Dec (1886) re disappointment at lack of lecture engagements on return (from Baltimore), agent Williams not managing well, but some interest from Ohio, advertisements now in some scientific journals and new circulars sent out, sending copy of circular and some local bills of fare to Violet, hopes to get enough lecturing to cover costs of travel to California in spring or summer but journey more expensive than to London, thinks people bored with natural history and want more exciting subjects; will spend winter in Washington and live more cheaply; has been visiting American museums and will write an article on them for Harris; problem of continual packing of clothing and sundries, will leave some in storage, lifebelt and picnic basket useless but overshoes a boon; freezing weather, ribald reaction of people in the street to his fur coat; assumes Annie will spend new year at Hurst, receipt of her letter of Dec 1. Place: USA
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NHM-WP01.005.013    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Wallace William Greenell, Wallace Violet Isabel?, Coues Elliott, Riley Charles Valentine  1887.01.03   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie, from The Hamilton, Washington DC, 3 Jan 1887, re arrival (from Boston) on Dec 31 in a snowstorm, stayed with Mr Riley the entomologist until a suitable room available, will stay at the Hamilton for next two or three months; instructions re A. R. Wallace's pension; Williams now has applications for many A. R. Wallace lectures; meeting with Prof Coues; accounts from MacMillan can be signed by Annie. Stamped envelope addressed to her at Frith Hill, Godalming and postmarked on the front Washington 3 Jan 1887 and on the back with two overlapping postmarks, one New York, the other Godalming? Some numbers (apparently two sums of money in LSD) are written on the back in ink in an unknown hand. Place: USA
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NHM-WP01.005.014    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet Isabel, Sims Frances née Wallace, Cook Kate, Wilson Algernon, Forbes John Murray, Gray Asa, Holmes Oliver Wendell, James Russell Lowell  1887.01.15   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet from The Hamilton, Washington DC, 15 Jan 1887 with detailed description of a seance in Boston at which spirits including those of an American Indian and a baby apparently materialised; another seance at which spirits of A. R. Wallace's Australian cousin Algernon Wilson and a woman who had met A. R. Wallace at Kate Cook's apparently materialised; floral decorations at a dinner in Boston hosted by John M Forbes with guests including Asa Gray, O W Holmes and James Russell Lowell, sending Violet a menu; sending a poem suitable for reciting cut from a magazine; beauty of the city of Washington; lack of lecture engagements, may go to Canada; letter to be forwarded to Violet's aunt Fanny (Sims). Place: Washington DC USA Notes: A menu for the dinner referred to is held in the Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University USA. "Call No.: MS Am 2166. Title: M. A. De Wolfe Howe menu collection, (1) Parker house, Boston. [Menu for dinner given by John M. Forbes to A.R. Wallace] [Boston] 29 Dec 1886. The verso bears a list of those present, including J. R. Lowell, O. W. Holmes, O. W. Holmes, Jr., C. E. Norton, and William James." (Source: http://oasis.harvard.edu/html/hou00463.html)
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NHM-WP01.005.015    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace William Greenell  1887.01.16   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his son William from The Hamilton Hotel, Washington DC, 16 Jan 1887 re newspaper reports of snow in England; snow in Washington, sleighs on the streets; stone artefacts from grave mounds displayed in American museums (ink sketch of five of these on p. 2 of letter); museum's orang-utan display; encloses some amusing cuttings (not present) from American papers; urges William to apply himself to carpentry lessons at school. "William Greenell Wallace" is written on the back of the letter in A. R. Wallace's hand. Place: Washington DC USA Notes: This was in the same envelope as a letter to Annie Wallace, 23 Feb 1887 (See WP1/20) when listed.
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NHM-WP01.005.016    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Hampden John, Allen Charles Grant Blairfindie, Allen J A  1887.01.29   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Washington DC, 29 Jan 1887, re her letter about snow in England and damage to garden; Hampden (John Hampden of the Flat Earth Society) not a threat as few American papers would print anything by him; flattery becoming "quite painful", quotes remarks by dinner host, Mr Nordhoff, Washington representative of "New York Herald", describes dinner in detail including settings (guests names in gold on rose leaves), dining etiquette; J A Allen, father of Grant Allen staying nearby with his family; magnificence of Washington, street layout and houses; details of city's tram system; approval of American methods of warming houses and trains; superiority of American railway system; details of hotel room including heater and gas lamp; amazing experiences of spiritualist General Lippitt, materialisations and slate-writing; seances attended; visit to millionaire spiritualist Senator Stanford and his wife, Stanford to spend 20 million dollars to found a university in memory of his son; sending press cuttings on weather and on Garibaldi; no lectures recently but two arranged in Canada in March; has sent an article to Harris and written reviews for some American papers. Stamped envelope addressed to her at Frith Hill, Godalming and postmarked on the front Washington 29 Jan 1887and on the back New York 30 Jan 1887 and Godalming 11 Feb 1887. Place: Washington DC USA
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NHM-WP01.005.017    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet Isabel, Hooker Isabella Beecher, Stowe Harriet Beecher  1887.02.12   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet from Washington DC, 12 Feb 1887, enclosing press cuttings (not present) apparently reporting a social occasion hosted by spiritualist Mrs Hooker, sister of Henry Ward Beecher and Mrs Beecher Stowe, at which A. R. Wallace was introduced to about 50 people; lectures to local Anthropological societies; lack of paying lectures, if none booked in California will not be able to afford to go there as fare is £50; only two forthcoming engagements in Canada; spending time visiting Museums and libraries and writing for American newspapers and for Harris; expense of hotel; changeable weather; detailed description of the "most beautiful" Capitol building and comparison with British House of Commons; instructions to send letters via agent Williams; hopes Violet is reading and studying well. Stamped envelope addressed to Miss Wallace at Frith Hill, Godalming and postmarked on the front Washington 14 Feb 1887and on the back New York? (date illegible) 1887 and Godalming 25 Feb 1887. Place: Washington DC USA Notes: Some names and passages including the comparison of the Capitol with the H of C, are underlined or marked in red pencil, possibly by J Marchant.
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NHM-WP01.005.018    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Lester Frank Ward  1887.02.14   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from The Hamilton hotel, Washington DC, 14 Feb 1887, re walk in the woods with botanist professor Ward, sending a collection of plants including ferns packed in moss in a biscuit tin, instructions for potting, Spotted Wintergreen (Chimaphila maculata) and Rattlesnake Plantain (Goodyera pubescens) to be given to Miss Jekyll and a sedge, Carex platyphylla, to Annie's father William Mitten, plants listed by botanical and common names; description of trees and other plants seen; curious appearance of fields without hedgerows; Paulownia imperialis, a tree with flowers like fox-gloves, grows to great height in Washington gardens; would like to stay and see woods in summer if finances permitted but there seems to be no demand for scientific lectures as too many scientists on the circuit; hopes Annie has succeeded in letting house or getting a boarder. Stamped envelope addressed to Mrs Wallace at Frith Hill, Godalming and postmarked on the front Washington 14 Feb 1887and on the back New York 15 Feb 1887 and Godalming 25 Feb 1887. Place: Washington DC USA Notes: 2 folios
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NHM-WP01.005.019    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten  1887.02.23   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Washington DC, 23 Feb 1887 with stamped envelope addressed to her at Frith Hill, Godalming and postmarked on the front Washington 23 Feb 1887and on the back New York 24 Feb 1887 and Godalming 7 Mar 1887. Place: Washington DC USA Notes: The envelope also contained A. R. Wallace to WGW, 16 Jan 1887 (WP1/1716) when sorted.
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NHM-WP01.005.020    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet Isabel  1887.03.16   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet from Niagara Falls (Canada), 16 Mar 1887, describing the partly frozen falls and surrounding area; ferns entirely absent, probably taken by tourists, every rock and stump covered with (carved) names; enclosed sketch map in black ink on paper approximately 14 cm x 15cm showing Prospect House, Horseshoe Fall, American Falls, Goat Island, Luna Island, Three Sisters (islands) bridges, rapids and points at which there is ice; original stamped envelope addressed to Miss Violet Wallace at Frith Hill, Godalming, postmarked on the front Niagara Falls Ontario 17 Mar 1887 and on the back Hamilton Canada 17 Mar 1887 and Godalming 28 Mar 1887. Place: Niagara Falls Ontario Canada USA Notes: The sketch was separately numbered at first listing because it was out of sequence in the original order, and only certainly identified as an enclosure to this letter after the letter was read. P J Lucas Mar 2003
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NHM-WP01.005.021    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel  [1887.03]   Small cream envelope approximately 14 cm x 8cm annotated on the back in pencil in WGW's? hand "Canada", containing a press cutting from an unnamed and undated paper (Mar 1887?), headlined "Dr. Alfred R. Wallace. | His lectures at University College - Brief sketch of his labours and works." Place: Canada Notes: Date based on Raby (2002) , p. 239
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NHM-WP01.005.022    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel  [1887.04]   Small cream envelope approximately 14 cm x 8cm annotated on the back in pencil in WGW's? hand "Cincinnati", containing two press cuttings from unnamed and undated newspapers (c. Apr 1887) The first headlined " Natural History Society | Lecture of Dr. Alfred Russell [sic] Wallace on 'Colours and Their uses in Animals' " reporting on A. R. Wallace's lecture to the Cincinnati Natural History Society, the second headlined " A Famous Naturalist. | Dr A. R. Wallace visiting Cincinnati." Place: Cincinnati Ohio USA
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NHM-WP01.005.023    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Mitten William  [1887].04.04   Letter from A. R. Wallace to William Mitten from Washington DC, 4 Apr (1887) Place: Washington DC USA
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NHM-WP01.005.024    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten  1887.04.05   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Washington DC, 5 Apr 1887 Place: Washington DC USA
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NHM-WP01.005.025    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet Isabel  1887.04.17   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet from Cincinnati, Ohio, 17 Apr 1887 Place: Cincinnati Ohio USA
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NHM-WP01.005.026    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, George Henry, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Jekyll Gertrude, Darwin Charles Robert, George Henry,  1887.04.22   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Cincinnati, 22 Apr 1887 describing the countryside around Cincinnati and the spring flowers in the woods, with botanical and common names; flower roots sent to Miss Jekyll; instructions to let the house (in England) for up to six months if possible; money earned from lectures, lectures scheduled in Bloomington Indiana, Sioux City Iowa and Kansas but no others so far; possibility of travelling to California if a lecture can be given in San Francisco; Diphtheria; enclosing press cuttings with instructions to keep any sent together as they may be useful material for a book; enclosing a Canadian stamp and a hunting story (press cutting?) for Willie (neither present). Press cutting headlined "Colors in Animals. | Their uses clearly explained" reporting on A. R. Wallace's lecture at Smith & Nixon's Hall, Cincinnati; annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand "Cincinnati Enquirer Ap 23/87 | A bad lamp! Which went out in the mid of the lecture!!!" Press cutting from The Post undated (c. Apr 1887) headlined "Dr. Wallace. | A scientist of world-wide reputation in Cincinnati" with brief details of Wallace, metioning his opinion of Henry George in relation to land monopoly and his forthcoming lecture at Smith & Nixon's Hall. Stamped envelope addressed to Mrs Wallace Frith Hill Godalming England, postmarked on the front Cincinnati 23 Apr 1887 and on the back New (York?) 24 Apr 1887 and Godalming 6 May 1887; annotated on the back at the bottom edge in A. R. Wallace's hand "I sent letter with Pension Certificate from Washington - April 6th."
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NHM-WP01.005.027    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Darwin Charles Robert  1887.05.03   Small cream envelope approximately 14 cm x 8cm annotated on the back in pencil in WGW's? hand "Sioux City", containing six press cuttings: Three copies of a cutting from the Sioux City (Journal?) 3 May 1887, headlined "Sioux City Amusements | The first of the series of Dr. Wallace's lectures at the Academy last night ..." reporting on A. R. Wallace's lecture on Darwin's theory of evolution and forthcoming lecture on colour in animals. Cutting from an unnamed and undated (Sioux City?) newspaper c, May 1897, headlined "Mrs. Dollinger's Caller. | Another shrewd scheme of the mean, deceitful book agent. | From the Dakota Bell" with a story on door-to-door salesmen of religious books. Cutting from an unnamed and undated (Sioux City Journal?) newspaper c. May 1887 headlined "Amusement Record. | Dr. Wallace's concluding lecture at the Academy last night" reporting on A. R. Wallace's lecture on oceanic islands. Cutting from an unnamed and undated (Sioux City?) newspaper c. May 1887 headlined "Items from Exchanges" reporting two stories from other newspapers, one on the closure of Sioux City drinking saloons and one on changes in the course of the Missouri river caused by ice. Place: Sioux City Iowa USA
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NHM-WP01.005.028    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten  1887.05.04   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Sioux City, 4 May 1887 Stamped envelope addressed to Mrs Wallace Frith Hill Godalming England, annotated in WGW's? hand on the front "Sioux City May 4th"; front postmark May but otherwise illegible, back postmarked Godalming 19 May 1887. Place: Sioux City Iowa USA
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NHM-WP01.005.029    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Mitten William  1887.05.13   Letter from A. R. Wallace to William Mitten from Salina, Kansas, 13 May 1887 Place: Salina Kansas USA
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NHM-WP01.005.030    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace William Greenell  1887.05.15   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his son William from Salina, Kansas, 15 May 1887. Place: Salina Kansas USA
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NHM-WP01.005.031    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet Isabel  1887.05.16   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet from Salina, Kansas, 16 May 1887 Place: Salina Kansas USA
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NHM-WP01.005.032    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten  1887.05.24   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from San Francisco, 24 May 1887. Stamped envelope printed with the address of "The Baldwin" (hotel?) addressed to Mrs Wallace Frith Hill Godalming England, postmarked on the front San Francisco 24? May 1887 and on the back Godalming 10 Jun 1887. Place: San Francisco California USA
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NHM-WP01.005.033    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Sims Frances née Wallace  1887.05.30   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his sister Fanny from Stockton, California, 30 May 1887 Place: Stockton California USA
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NHM-WP01.005.034    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten  1887.06.19   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Stockton, California, 19 Jun 1887 Place: Stockton California USA
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NHM-WP01.005.035    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet Isabel  1887.06.24   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet from Stockton, California, 24 Jun 1887 Place: Stockton California USA
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NHM-WP01.005.036    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Wallace John, Jekyll Gertrude  1887.07.01   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Stockton, California, 1 Jul 1887 enclosed with a letter to her father William Mitten (see WP1/17/38): re her success in letting the house; visit to Yosemite and Santa Cruz with his brother John to see big trees; swollen and ulcerated lip confining him to the house, plans to visit Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada when well; ferns from Santa Cruz sent to Miss Jekyll; Mr Marshall; problems with posting items from America; A. R. Wallace's San Francisco lecture on spiritualism well attended and further offer from Chicago, Spiritualism pays better than Natural History; sending ferns from Yosemite; description of Sequoia sempervirens seen in the Redwood forests and exotic plants in California; California as a place to live. Place: Stockton California USA Notes: This letter was in the envelope addressed to William Mitten, now with the letter to him at WP1/17/38. PJL
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NHM-WP01.005.037    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred RusselMitten William, Wallace Annie née Mitten  1887.07.01   Letter from A. R. Wallace to William Mitten from Stockton, California, 1 Jul 1887 enclosing a letter to Annie Wallace (See WP1/17/37): re plans to go to the Rocky Mountains; will look out for medicinal plants for Mitten. Stamped envelope addressed to William Mitton Esq Hurstpierpoint Sussex England, postmarked on the front Stockton California 2 Jul 1887 and on the back (town name illegible)18 Jul 1887. Place: Stockton California USA
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NHM-WP01.005.038    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Mitten William  1887.07.10   Letter from A. R. Wallace to William Mitten from the "Summit level of the Central Pacific Railway on the Sierra Nevada, 7020 feet above the sea", 10 Jul 1887 Place: Sierra Nevada California USA
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NHM-WP01.005.039    Correspondence:   Mitten William  1887.07.15   Letter written in pencil from A. R. Wallace to William Mitten from a train "Stranded in the Desert of the Upper Colorado, on boundary of Colorado and Utah", 15 Jul 1887. Envelope annotated in pencil in WGW's? hand "from (Arid?) Cal. USA 1887" with a pencilled tick after the annotation.
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NHM-WP01.005.040    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Mitten William  1887.07.31   Letter from A. R. Wallace to William Mitten from Michigan Agricultural College, 31 Jul 1887 Place: Michigan USA
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NHM-WP01.005.041    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Annie née Mitten  1887.07.31   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Michigan Agricultural College, 31 Jul 1887 Place: Michigan USA
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NHM-WP01.005.042    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel  1887.08.03   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie from Kingston, Canada, 3 Aug 1887. Stamped envelope addressed to William Mitten Esq Hurstpierpoint Sussex England, postmarked on the front Kingston Canada 4 Aug 1887 and on the back (Hassocks) 15 Aug 1887; annotated in pencil in WGW's? hand "Canada (4?) August". Place: Kingston Canada Notes: The letter to Annie was almost certainly, like others to her, enclosed with one to Mitten.
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NHM-WP01.005.043    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Mitten William, Wallace Annie née Mitten  1887.05.21   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his father in law William Mitten, from Salt Lake City, 21 May 1887, urging Mitten to join him in June or July at Manitou Springs in the Rocky Mountains, has met a lady botanist who says plants magnificent; detailed instructions on route from Quebec or Montreal, advice on luggage, clothing, plant boxes and sphagnum, travel by steamer and train, sleeping car accommodation and cost versus hotels; plants seen growing wild in Salina, Kansas included Tradescantia virginica, Yucca angustifola, Penstemon cobaea and fields covered with a blue flower probably Camassia; will write to wife Annie from San Francisco. Place: Utah USA Kansas USA Denver Colorado USA Canada Notes: 2 folios. This letter was among others in a modern (1999) envelope labelled in Richard Wallace's hand "Letters to Annie, WGW etc (&?) From Fred Birch" and was appended to this file in July 2003.
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NHM-WP01.006.001    Correspondence:   Birch Frederick RWallace Alfred Russel, Mosley L S, Humboldt Alexander von Baron, Higgins Henry Hugh, Haeckel Ernst, Huxley Thomas Henry, Kingsley Mary Henrietta  1899.11.16   Letter from Fred R Birch to A. R. Wallace from Wavertree, Liverpool, 16 Nov 1899; 5 sewn folios (20 pp) thanking A. R. Wallace for past help and reporting on his own life and thoughts over the past year including a camping trip in Llanferris, flora and fauna near River Alyn, geology of local rivers, collecting moths and mosses; cycling in Pennine hills; visit from Harold Sayler; winter clothing and exercise; L S Mosley's Economic Museum in Huddersfield, Mosley's involvement with Naturalist's Journal; camping and collecting insects in Delamere Forest Cheshire, names of some beetles and moths collected; trips along Welsh rivers; reading on ethnology and the tropics in anticipation of going there, lists authors including Humboldt, Bell, H H Higgins, Ernst Haeckel and Huxley, praises Mary Kingsley; praises practical learning and self-sufficiency; desire to learn, frustration of work restricting time available; a friend at Ladysmith, (Boer) war; secretaryship of Lancs and Cheshire entomological Society; photography of natural objects. Stamped envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace at Parkstone, postmarked on front Wavertree Liverpool 21 Nov 1899 with an illegible postmark on the back; annotated in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Fred. Birch | Interesting letter - thoughts &c &c." Place: Liverpool Parkstone Dorset England Wales Notes: Second Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902.
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NHM-WP01.006.002    Correspondence:   Birch Frederick R, Wallace Alfred Russel, Moss A M, New Age The  1910.01.23   Postcard from Fred Birch to A. R. Wallace from Theophilo Ottoni, Brazil, 23 Jan 1910 re receipt of A. R. Wallace's December letters, acquaintance with A M Moss at the Lancs & Cheshire entomological society, Moss's collections and paintings; "The New Age"; asking for copies of "Intensive Agriculture". Place: Broadstone Dorset England Theophilo Ottoni Brazil
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NHM-WP01.006.003    Correspondence:   Birch Frederick R, Wallace Alfred Russel, Huber ?, Jordan Heinrich Ernst Karl, Moss A M, May ?, Thoreau Henry David, New Age The  1910.02.14   Letter from Fred Birch to A. R. Wallace from Theophilo Ottoni, Brazil, 14 Feb 1910 re A. R. Wallace's letter to Dr Huber; lack of information on insect collecting opportunities in Para, suspects trade rivalry; plans to leave Brazil after two and a half years there, details of repeated theft and loss of packages in the mails and his valuable hand-made collecting case sent from Tring by Dr Jordan at Bahia customs house; misunderstanding with Mr May over house rent and purchase of collections; surprise at news of A M Moss collecting in the Andes; butterflies sent to Tring made £53.12.00 but cannot trust beetle collection to a carrier, is making boxes for them; plans to go to British Guiana and collect on the Demerara or Berbice rivers, cannot afford to go to the Andes because of responsibility for Mary and Elsie (wife and child?); disagrees with A. R. Wallace's views on labour and intellect, quotes Thoreau and from an A. R. Wallace letter; necessity of broad study and experience of life, nobility of agricultural labour; admires some articles in the N.A.("New Age"). Green paper envelope (stamp torn off) addressed to A. R. Wallace at Broadstone, postmarked on the front Theophilo Ottoni 20 Feb 1910 and on the back Ambula Rio de Janeiro 2? 21? 1910, Diamantina (date illegible) and Wimborne 20 Mar (1910); annotated on the front in A. R. Wallace's hand "Recd. Mar 20th 1910 | Rio or B. Guiana! | Written Feby 1910". Notes: The envelope also contained a letter written on May 5 - see WP1/6/4
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NHM-WP01.006.004    Correspondence:   Birch Frederick R, Wallace Alfred Russel, May ?, Donne John, Thoreau Henry David, Emerson Ralph Waldo, Rodway ?, Mill John Stuart, Sparrow Walter S, New Age The  1910.05.05   Letter from Fred Birch to A. R. Wallace from Theophilo Ottoni, Brazil, 5 May 1910 with rough ink sketch of a Zeonia butterfly at the top of first page and of Nymphalinae butterfly at the bottom of the last page. Re delay in leaving Brazil due to photographing local families, problems of portrait photograph; reconsidering move (to British Guiana), correspondence with Mr May and Mr Rodway of Georgetown, Barbados, recent changes in laws on immigration into British colonies, possibility of going to Victoria, Espirito Santo, Brazil as living cheaper and postal service more reliable than in Rio state; nature of entomologists, not all collectors lovers of nature, quotes a John Donne verse (probably as quoted in "Walden" by Thoreau) and Emerson on man and nature; collection for Prof Poulton now complete; recent collections of moths and butterflies including an unknown moth and probable Zeonia and a Nymphalinae butterflies (all described in some detail); long local drought affecting crops and food prices; gardening; asks for news of British parliament and budget; unemployment relief, have Mr Mill's (J S Mill?) and A. R. Wallace's schemes been tried; asks for copies of "Intensive Culture" published by the "Clarion" and "New Age" article on "The Art of homemaking" by Walter S Sparrow. Place: Barbados Caribbean Islands Brazil British Guiana Notes: 1 folio. This was in the same envelope as letter dated 14 Feb 1910 -see WP1/6/3
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NHM-WP01.006.005    Correspondence:   Birch Frederick R, Wallace Alfred Russel, Cotton Sir Arthur, Albert Edward Wettin Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay Earl of Carrick Baron Renfrew Lord of the Isles Great Steward of Scotland, Edward VII King of Great Britain and Ireland, Paulhan Louis, Boynton ?, Halley Edmund, New Age The  1910.07.14   Letter from Fred Birch to A. R. Wallace from "that wretched T.O." (Theophilo Ottoni, Brazil), 14 Jul 1910 with thanks for letters and three copies of "The New Age", other copies failed to arrive, presumed stolen, hopes promised copy of Sir Arthur Cotton's tract on agriculture will arrive safely, no news of Velox photographic paper ordered via Mr May; belated news of King's death through local Germans; Paulhan's flight from London to Manchester, speculation on when public air travel will be possible and its effects; hopes for the arrival of Socialism; detailed descriptions of the appearance and behaviour of birds and animals visiting the garden including parroquets, orioles, toucans and callistes, many eating oranges, wrens attacking a snake, woodpeckers apparently eating pawpaws or insects within them; opossums, bats taking food from the table and cooking stove, fruit scarce in forest; night temperatures below freezing, large variation of day and night temperature; cannot consider joining Captain Boynton at the Orinoco because considering move to British Guiana or Victoria (Brazil); has practiced dentistry on Mary (wife?) and filled several cavities; good view of Halley's comet. Postscript on a smaller sheet of paper asking cost of land in Hampshire, Devonshire and Somerset and whether peaches can be grown there; where filberts will grow successfully (in Britain); Windermere; asks for news of any land available on the Warwickshire Avon. Green paper envelope with stamp removed, postmarked Theophilo-Ottoni 17 Jul 1910, addressed to A. R. Wallace at Broadstone; annotated in A. R. Wallace's? or WGW's? hand "Dated - July, 1910". Place: Barbados Caribbean Islands Brazil British Guiana Devonshire England Hampshire Warwickshire Notes: 3 folios consisting of 2 folios 16.5cm x 10.5cm and a note on a small sheet of paper 9cm x 7cm
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NHM-WP01.006.006    Correspondence:   Birch Frederick R, Wallace Alfred Russel, Cotton Sir Arthur Thomas, New Age The  1910.07.19   Postcard from Fred Birch to A. R. Wallace from Theophilo Ottoni, Brazil, 19 Jul 1910 thanking A. R. Wallace for the pamphlet (by Sir Arthur Cotton) on intensive agriculture which has arrived safely along with copies of "The New Age", is delighted with it; gives details of his gardening methods and previous year's crops of oats and potatoes, potatoes this year destroyed by ants; adds to description of Calliste birds given in last letter (see WP1/6/5) and corrects description of Toucan; reminds A. R. Wallace he wants details of prices, soil, temperature and rainfall of land in Devonshire. Place: Brazil Devonshire
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NHM-WP01.006.007    Correspondence:   Birch Frederick R, Wallace Alfred Russel, Scofield ?, Reiche Eugenis?, Cotton Sir Arthur Thomas, New Age The  1910.12.15   Letter from Fred Birch to A. R. Wallace from the Brazil highlands, Brazil, 15 Dec 1910 re delay in plans to leave for another part of Brazil as wife Mary expecting a child in March and no replies (re suitability of the area) from correspondents in Espirito Santo, Victoria; has collected many new beetle species though butterflies scarcer than before, will risk posting a box of Lepidoptera to Mr May in Rio; considering moving to Caravellas or Peruhype, quotes a letter from Mr Scofield recommending both areas as ideal sites for insect collecting, will write to Eugenis? Reiche about housing; describes capture and photographing of a sloth which bit him through the thumb, sloth's fur infested with many small moths similar to Depressaria; thanks for copies of N.A. ("The New Age"; wheat planted according to Cotton's methods thriving. Place: Brazil
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NHM-WP01.007.003    Note:    1910.02.06   Ms notes in Skertchly's hand headed on first page "Replies | To Dr. A. Russel Wallace's Criticism | of my 'Origin of Australia., | (Much condensed)" beginning "1. Objections to the suggested recent origin of the MarsupaliaÂ…"; 21 numbered folios dated on last Corinda, Queensland, 6 Feb 1910; (filed in an 18[89] envelope from "The Auk" when listed.) Place: Australia
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NHM-WP01.007.004    Correspondence:   Skertchly Sydney Barber Josiah  1910.02.06   Letter to A. R. Wallace from Sydney B Skertchly from Corinda 6 Feb 1910 2 ff. (in envelope from Hamer & Co when listed). Place: Australia
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NHM-WP01.007.005    Correspondence:   Skertchly Sydney Barber Josiah  1910.02.12   Letter to A. R. Wallace from Sydney B Skertchly from Corinda 12 Feb 1910 with ink sketch of a wallaby on first page and ink sketch of geologic section "Old Palaeozoic" re "unconformity in the Wallace/Skertchly series" and Wallace's line, 16 numbered pages on 8 ff; (in envelope from Hamer & Co when listed). Place: Australia
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NHM-WP01.007.006    Correspondence:   Skertchly Sydney Barber Josiah  1910.02.17   Letter to A. R. Wallace from Sydney B Skertchly from jungle west of Corinda 17 Feb 1910, 3 ff, 6 numbered pages; (in envelope from Hamer & Co when listed). Place: Australia
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NHM-WP01.007.007    Note:    1910.02.18   Sheet headed " 'Favoured Races' Some of my difficulties", 1 f. dated on back "18. 2.10", re entomophilous flowers, parasites, and specialised organs; probably a PS to the previous letter. (in envelope from Hamer & Co when listed). Place: Australia
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NHM-WP01.008.001    Correspondence:   Aitken John  1899.03.27   Letter from John Aitken to A. R. Wallace from Ardenlea, Falkirk, 27 Mar 1899, re light, atmospheric particles and the causes of the blue colour of sea water and sky. Place: Scotland
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NHM-WP01.008.002    Correspondence:   Aitken John, Tyndall John  1899.04.07   Letter from John Aitken to A. R. Wallace from Ardenlea, Falkirk, 7 Apr 1899, re light, atmospheric particles and the causes of the blue colour of sea water and sky; 2 ff., back of f. 2 annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand "See Tyndall in Nature vol. 1. ... colours of water and air". Place: Scotland
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NHM-WP01.008.003    Correspondence:   Aitken John, Tyndall John  1899.04.17   Letter from John Aitken to A. R. Wallace from Ardenlea, Falkirk, 17 Apr 1899, re light, atmospheric particles and the causes of the blue colour of sea water and sky, Tyndall's article in "Nature", polarized light; 3 ff. Place: Scotland Notes: First page of f. 2 numbered in ink "5" and of f. 3 "9".
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NHM-WP01.008.004    Correspondence:   Aitken John  1900.11.19   Letter from John Aitken to A. R. Wallace from Ardenlea, Falkirk, 19 Nov 1900, re light, atmospheric particles and the causes of the blue colour of the sky; 2 ff. Place: Scotland Notes: First page of f. 1 numbered "5".
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NHM-WP01.008.005    Correspondence:   Aitken John, Dewar Sir James  1900.11.23   Letter from John Aitken to A. R. Wallace from Ardenlea, Falkirk, 23 Nov 1900, re prof Dewar's experiments, light, atmospheric particles and the causes of the blue colour of the sky. Place: Scotland Notes: Some passages underlined in blue pencil.
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NHM-WP01.008.006    Correspondence:   Aldrich James  1913.01.22   Letter from J M Aldrich to A. R. Wallace from University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA 22 Jan 1913, with 90th birthday congratulations Place: USA
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NHM-WP01.008.007    Correspondence:   Allen George, Wallace Alfred Russel  1903.10.03   Postcard from George Allen, Publisher, Ruskin House, London, 3 Oct 1903, re order for "Literary Year Book 1904". Place: London
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NHM-WP01.008.008    Correspondence:   Association of Public School Science Masters  1913.01.08   Telegram from the Association of Public School Science Masters, from London, 8 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday and on his achievements. Place: Broadstone Dorset London England
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NHM-WP01.008.009    Correspondence:   Australian Association for the Advancement of Science , Maiden Joseph Henry  1913.01.08   Reuters telegram from Maiden, Secretary, for the meeting of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science, from Melbourne (Victoria), 8 Jan 1913, to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday and on his achievements. Place: Broadstone Dorset England Melbourne Victoria Australia
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NHM-WP01.008.010    Correspondence:   Australian Association for the Advancement of Science, Maiden Joseph Henry  1913.01.08   [Letter]. Place: Broadstone Dorset England Melbourne Victoria Australia
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NHM-WP01.008.011    Correspondence:   Baddeley Welbore St. Clair  1913.01.08   Telegram from St Clair Baddeley (Welbore St Clair Baddeley?) from London, 8 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace from congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday and on his achievements. Place: Broadstone Dorset England London England
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NHM-WP01.008.012    Correspondence:   Bancks Gerard W, Wallace Alfred Russel  1874.[04.00]   Letter from Rev Gerard W Bancks to A. R. Wallace, from Hartley Rectory, near Longfield, Kent, (Apr?) no year or month date, asking A. R. Wallace to accept enclosed pamphlets; Bancks a great admirer of A. R. Wallace's work on spiritualism ("On Miracles and Modern Spiritualism", 1874?) . Place: Kent England
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NHM-WP01.008.013    Correspondence:   Barrow Thomas  1913.01.08   Letter from Thomas Barrow, from Gowerton, 8 Jan 1913, congratulating him on his 90th birthday. Place: Wales
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NHM-WP01.008.015    Correspondence:   Bell Francis Jeffrey  1913.01.04   Letter from F Jeffrey Bell, from BM(NH), London, 4 Jan 1913, to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday and on his achievements.
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NHM-WP01.008.016    Correspondence:   Berghe W van den  1913.01.08   Letter from W van den Berghe, from London, 8 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace, begging for money for a passage to South Africa after reading a biographical article about Wallace in the Westminster Gazette including Wallace's reported opinion on the alleviation of poverty; he has been financially ruined by the Boer War and by the loss of restaurant in Leith, Scotland due to strikes. Place: Broadstone Dorset London England Stamped envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace at Broadstone, annotated in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Ansd."
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NHM-WP01.008.017    Correspondence:   Berghe W van den  1913.01.[12]   Letter from W van den Berghe, from London 12? Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace re Russel's reply to his previous letter of 8 Jan 1913 (See WP1/187) saying that there is no South African Consul in London; asking for the addresses of any wealthy South Africans Russel may know. Stamped envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace at Broadstone, annotated in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Ansd. Place: Broadstone Dorset London England
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NHM-WP01.008.018    Correspondence:   Bertram Dora  1913.01.08   Telegram from Dora Bertram, from London, 8 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday and on his achievements. Place: Broadstone Dorset London England
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NHM-WP01.008.019    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel  1913.01.07   Letter from Dora S?W? Best?, from Goole, 7 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday and giving news of her family, weather and gardening. Place: Broadstone Dorset Goole East Yorkshire England
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NHM-WP01.008.020    Correspondence:   Bournemouth Natural Science Society  1913.01.08   Telegram from the Bournemouth Natural Science Society, from Bournemouth, 8 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday and on his achievements. Place: Broadstone Dorset Bournemouth Dorset England
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NHM-WP01.008.022    Correspondence:   British Phrenological Society Incorporated  1907.04.18   Letter to A. R. Wallace from the British Phrenological Society Incorporated, Chancery Lane, 18 Apr 1907, signed George Hart-Cox Place: London
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NHM-WP01.008.025    Correspondence:   Broughton ? Miss901, Petrie Mrs  1913.01.10   Letter on card from Miss Broughton and Mrs Petrie, from Plymouth, 10 Jan 1913, to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on his 90th birthday Place: Plymouth Devon England
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NHM-WP01.008.026    Correspondence:   Brown Robert  1903.11.27   Letter from Robert Brown Jnr to A. R. Wallace from Tankerville, Boscombe, Bournemouth, 27 Nov 1903 re A. R. Wallace's "Man's Place in the Universe". Place: Bournemouth Dorset England
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NHM-WP01.008.027    Correspondence:   Brown Robert, Wallace Alfred Russel, Lang Andrew, Kavanah ?  1904.01.08   Letter from Robert Brown Jnr to A. R. Wallace from Hull, 8 Jan 1904, enclosing a sheet headed "Remarks", re the origin of speech and Brown's paper on it, occult imitation, Socratic Dialogue on Language in Jowett's "Plato", Andrew Lang and the application of totemistic principles to historical names; returning A. R. Wallace's paper on "Speech" (not present). The "remarks" are notes with associated page numbers, (possibly pages in A. R. Wallace's paper?). Place: Hull Humberside England
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NHM-WP01.008.028    Correspondence:   Bulley H A  1913.01.07   Letter from H A Bulley, from Brighton, 7 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace in response to A. R. Wallace's article in the "Daily News" of 6 Jan 1913, congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday and his services to Spiritualism and disagreeing at length with his views on Socialism. Place: Broadstone Dorset Brighton East Sussex England
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NHM-WP01.008.029    Correspondence:   Butter Stanley E?  1913.01.18   Letter [no description] Place: Tunbridge Wells Kent
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NHM-WP01.008.030    Correspondence:   Button Arthur  1913.01.07   Letter from Arthur Button from Parkstone (Dorset), 7 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday and commenting on his article in the "Daily News and Leader."
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NHM-WP01.008.031    Correspondence:   Casey Olive  1913.01.08   Telegram from Olive and Bertie [Casey?], from Parkstone (Dorset), 8 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth birthday and on his achievements. Place: Broadstone Dorset Parkstone Dorset England
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NHM-WP01.008.033    Correspondence:   Cousins R R, Reynolds Osborne  1913.11.14   Letter from J R Collins, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto, 14 Nov 1903, to A. R. Wallace re re radiation and Osborne Reynold's theory of matter and ether. 2 folios. Possibly related to A. R. Wallace's "Man's place in the Universe. ." (book pub August 1903) Place: Canada
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NHM-WP01.008.034    Correspondence:   Cousins R R  [1913].01.10   Letter from R R Cousins, from Plymouth, 10 Jan 1912 (sic: 1913) to A. R. Wallace commenting on an interview with him printed in the "Daily News and Leader"; enclosing a printed tract "A Word to a Sabbath-Breaker" by John Wesley. Stamped envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace at Broadstone, postmarked on the front Plymouth 10 Jan 1913 and on the back Wimborne 11 Jan 1913; annotated in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand "About the Sabbath Josephus Bible". Place: Broadstone Dorset Plymouth Devon England
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