NHM-WP01.002.057    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Macdonald Miss, ? Maclachlan Mrs., Maclachlan Hamish, Mitten Mrs William, Reid Clement, Harris Frank  1894.12.14   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 14 Dec 1894, re visit by Mrs Maclachlan and small son Hamish; Miss Macdonald expected; kindergarten books; gardening; completion of article on language; Harris leaving the "Fortnightly", opinion of new editor; Violet should visit orchid nursery John Rowan & Co at Garston near Liverpool; Ma (Annie Wallace) going to Hurst for her mother's (Mrs Mitten) golden wedding celebrations; considering asking Clement Reid to Christmas dinner. Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.059    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace William Greenell, Blatchford Robert ("Nunquam"), Evans Mrs, ? Maclachlan Mrs., Maclachlan Hamish, Mott Frederick Thompson, Fisher Dr  1885.01.31   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 31 Jan 1895 re winter weather; (travel) bags for Violet and her brother William; William going to Glasgow on another job; A. R. Wallace's "Evolution" article part-published this month, his article on language due out in three months or more; the Evans's business failing; Violet's final exams and career prospects as a kindergarten teacher; planned chess match, Poole and Parkstone against Bournemouth; sending copy of the "R of R" with interesting articles on "Merry England" and Mr Blatchford; Mrs Maclachlan and Hamish returning to Hindhead; A. R. Wallace's answer to Mr Mott's enigma; death of Dr Fisher. Place: Dorset England Notes: Annotated at the top in blue pencil in an unknown hand: "Riddle".

NHM-WP01.002.061    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Macdonald Miss,  1895.03.07   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 7 Mar 1895, re sending crocus (bulbs) and a lily, with instructions for planting and care; will send snakes soon; arrangements for Violet's final exams, suggesting Miss MacDonald might substitute for her at the Kindergarten for six weeks; cost of a glass prism; purchase of book "Portraits & Autographs" (of 100 men). Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.063    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Mitten Bessie, ? Eleanor?  1895.06.02   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 2 Jun 1895, re examination meetings and reports, choosing orchids at Witley; gift of Barmah (Burma?) orchids; gardening; her brother William's plans and Violet's proposed walking tour; possibility of Aunt Bessie (Bessie Mitten) and Ma (Annie Wallace) taking a Polytechnic tour to Switzerland; sending a copy of his address on the unemployed; sending £5 towards cost of Violet's fees and lodgings; proposed excursion near Blandford with the Bournemouth Botanic Club; remembrances to Eleanor. Place: Bournemouth Dorset England Switzerland Notes: The Address referred to is "Suggestions for solving the problems of the unemployed, etc. etc.", Presidential address read at the fourteenth annual meeting of the Land-Nationalisation Society, 8 April 1895. LNS Tract No 64 (London 1895) 1-20.

NHM-WP01.002.065    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace William Greenell, Wallace Annie née Mitten, ? Eleanor?  1895.10.04   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 4 Oct 1895, re bills from Violet's dressmaker and dentist; instructions for obtaining a copy of the County History of Lancashire; death of Crumpet, a family cat, and the fate of her kittens; A. R. Wallace's article on language published, leading article on it in the "Daily Chronicle"; regards to Eleanor; Ma's (Annie Mitten) health; Violet's brother William still at Govan. Place: Dorset England Notes: The article referred to is "The Expressiveness of Speech, or Mouth-Gesture as a Factor in the Origin of Language", Fortnightly Review 58, (n.s, 64, o.s.) 528-43, 1 Oct 1895.

NHM-WP01.002.067    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, ? Eleanor?, Wallace William Greenell  1896.02.08   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 8 Feb 1896 re bacon sent by Eleanor. Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.069    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Doveton Frank Bassett, Tolstoy Leo, Muir J, Besant Walter,  1896.03.18   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 18 Mar 1896, re Galton's work on visualisation; Violet's preference for snails over orchids; her Literary Society; Tolstoy's letter in the previous day's "Chronicle"; books, recommends J Muir and Besant; visiting poet (Doveton). Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.071    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Wallace William Greenell, ? Eleanor?  1896.05.26   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 26 May 1896, re Violet's proposed trip to Switzerland, relative merits of chalets, hotels and possible itineraries; flowers in garden; sending Zoo tickets; regards to Eleanor. Place: Dorset England Switzerland

NHM-WP01.002.073    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Musson S C  1896.06.13   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 13 Jun 1896 re accommodation and itinerary on her proposed trip to Switzerland, with details from a letter by Mr Musson including his address at Villeneuve; Lumt? the cat has had kittens. Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.075    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Dawson Julia Mrs, Fisher Arabella Burton (née Buckley)  1896.10.18   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet from Parkstone, Dorset 18 Oct 1896, re books and the "Clarion"; chess; Violet's new bicycle; Mrs Fisher's new book; beetles and snails; explanation of the movement of a free pendulum relative to the movement of the earth with suggestions for classroom experiment; Mrs Julia Dawson of the "Clarion". Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.077    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Poulton Sir Edward Bagnall, Burrell Percy, Darwin Charles Robert  1896.11.27   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 27 Nov 1896, re his voluminous correspondence, Percy Burell; lime tree blight; gas leak in house; new patent fire mantel; Professor Poulton and proposed statue of Darwin in Oxford; Violet's salary. Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.079    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace William Greenell, Nansen ?  1896.12.02   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 2 Dec 1896, re request from her brother William for aid to an unemployed schoolmaster; gardening; orchids; MS demanded by Violet sent; articles by Nansen sent. Place: Dorset England Notes: Triangular tear in centre of first page.

NHM-WP01.002.081    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace William Greenell, MacAlpine G A  1897.01.24   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 24 Jan 1897, sending her birthday greetings; and re her brother William and Mac sailing (for America?) from Liverpool on March 3rd. Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.083    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Bates Henry Walter, Besant Annie née Morris, Sharpe J W, Webb Miss,  1892.02.21   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 21 Feb 1892, re the conjunction of Venus and Jupiter (diagram enclosed -see WP1/2/84); death of (Henry Walter) Bates; chess games with Miss West, Mr Pocock and Mr Linton; visit by the Sharpes and Mrs Besant; Mrs Besant's lectures; Miss Webb; plays Hamlet and Henry VIII. Place: Dorset England Notes: Date originally read as 1897, but Bates died in 1892 and date on enclosed sketch is clearly 1892. Annotated in pencil in an unknown hand (or possibly A. R. Wallace's) "Mrs Besant". Enclosure: sketch diagram of relative positions of Earth, Venus and Jupiter in Feb 1892. Separately entered as record WP1/2/84

NHM-WP01.002.085    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace William Greenell, MacAlpine G A, Stevenson Robert Louis Balfour  1897.03.25   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 25 Mar 1897, re letters from her brother William; coughs and colds; Stevenson's "New Arabian Nights". Place: Boston Massachusetts USA Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.087    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace William Greenell, MacAlpine G A, Sharpe J W, Fisher Arabella Burton (née Buckley), Greck Madame  1897.04.09   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 9 Apr 1897, re the "Brotherhood"; news from her brother William in New York; poem relevant to situation in Crete and Greece sent to the "Clarion" by A. R. Wallace; book going slowly; Mrs Fisher; the Sharpes, Madame Greck. Place: Dorset England Notes: Annotated in blue pencil in an unknown hand "Poem".

NHM-WP01.002.089    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Schreiner Olive Emilie Albertina  1897.05.04   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 4 May 1897, re ms of her article on playgrounds for poor children, possibly suitable for "Contemporary Review"; Olive Schreiner in the "Fortnightly"; A. R. Wallace's article on "Gorge of the Aar" in the "Fortnightly"; chapter on Phrenology for book finished. Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.091    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, ? Stead Mr  1897.07.06   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 6 Jul 1897, re visit to Lynton and Ilfracombe; her brother William's letters; visits from naturalists, socialists, a phrenologist and Mr Stead; Stead's book of photographic portraits. Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.093    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace William Greenell, Blatchford Robert ("Nunquam"), Cartwel ?, Rousseau Jean Jacques,  1897.09.30   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 30 Sep 1897, re book on educational reformers including Rousseau; "Brotherhood"; Nunquam and Cartwel in the "Clarion"; news from her brother William in America; her salary and career, possibility of (renting?) Walker's house for use as a kindergarten; Corfe View house; holidays in Switzerland. Place: Dorset England Switzerland

NHM-WP01.002.095    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace William Greenell, Brett ?, ? Dunn  1897.10.22   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 22 Oct 1897, re bird behaviour; Violet's expenses and dental treatment; news from her brother William in America; books; "The Arena", A. R. Wallace, Dr Brett and General Dunn buying orchids; anti-vaccination chapter finished, considering publishing as a separate paper. Place: Dorset England Notes: Annotated in blue pencil in an unknown hand "(Big?) orchid"

NHM-WP01.002.097    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, ? Eleanor?  1897.12.11   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 11 Dec 1897 re sending moss and flowers; finishing vaccination paper and diagrams; Eleanor's plans for Christmas. Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.099    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet  [1896.04.00]   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset Monday morning Apr? 1896? re trains and route to Parkstone from Waterloo; her brother William and the Clarion Cycling Club at Bakewell. Place: Dorset England Notes: Originally dated Dec? 1897? because of position in bundle, but William was in America in November 1897 (See WP1/2/96) and cycling in Bakewell in or about April, 1896. (See WP1/2/70)

NHM-WP01.002.101    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace William Greenell, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Wallace Mary Née Webster, Fisher Arabella Burton (née Buckley), Bellamy Edward  1898.01.23   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 23 Jan 1898, with birthday greetings; re Violet's salary; hopes Vaccination book out in a few days, problem with diagrams; "Century" ("The Wonderful Century") MS finished, proof reader needed, Mrs Fisher's suggestions for poetical chapter headings; Mrs Fisher's (eyesight?); Bellamy's "Equality"; letter from Mrs Wallace of Stockton (Violet's aunt Mary) re Violet's brother William; William's letters. Place: Dorset England Denver Colorado Stockton California USA

NHM-WP01.002.103    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace William Greenell  1898.02.04   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 4 Feb 1898 re letter from her brother William; Violet's career and salary. Place: Dorset England Germany

NHM-WP01.002.105    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace William Greenell, Longfellow , Mott Frederick Thompson, Chant Mr, Longfellow Henry Wadsworth, Fisher Arabella Burton (née Buckley)  1898.02.22   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 22 Feb 1898 re her (move to?) London and resignation from current job; "The Wonderful Century", verses and mottos wanted for chapter headings, Longfellow, Mr Mott; design wanted for cover; Mr Chant? to read proofs; Mrs Fisher; Eucalyptus in garden damaged by snow; book on vaccination and letter from her brother William sent last week. Place: Dorset England