NHM-WP01.008.137    Correspondence:   Riley James Whitcomb, Law James D fl., Dickey John M, Poe Edgar Allan  1904.03.21   Letter from John M Dickey pp James Whitcomb Riley, from Indianapolis, Indiana, 21 Mar 1904, to James D Law re the poem "Leonanie", annotated in the margin in J D Law's hand in ink "Dr. A.R. Wallace's letter to J. D. Law - March 5 1904" with a letter written on the back from James D Law, London 2 Apr 1904, to A. R. Wallace. Place: England USA Notes: This letter was transferred from papers re short publications by A. R. Wallace and has been added at the end of the numerical sequence: it is therefore out of alphabetical order.

NHM-WP02.002.001    Printed:    1898.01.00   Interview with A. R. Wallace headed "A visit to Dr. A. R. Wallace, F.R.S." by "A.D." in "The Bookman" Jan 1898, pp. 121-124, with two photos of A. R. Wallace. 2 ff. See also WP1/2/96, letter from A. R. Wallace to Violet Wallace 24 Nov 1897.

NHM-WP02.002.003    Note:    1905.11.00   Biographical notes on A. R. Wallace, including notes of a meeting in America with his son William. Printed pamphlet (offprint?) by Elbert Hubbard, "Little Journeys to homes of great scientists. Wallace" (Vol. XV11, No 5, November 1905, New York, 1905). Pages numbered 85-107, with some un-numbered pages of end matter including advertisements and title page at front. Portrait (photolithograph?) of Wallace in old age, on a loose undated unnumbered folio, enclosed. Place: England USA

NHM-WP02.002.005    Printed:    1913.01.06   Press cutting headed "The Spectre of Poverty | Dr. Russel Wallace and his Remedy" from the "Daily News & Leader" 6 Jan 1913; interview with no by-line with A. R. Wallace, including portrait photo by Haines.

NHM-WP02.002.007    Printed:    1913.01.10   Print, proof?1 folio including "Dr. A. R. Wallace | O.M.… interview with A. R. Wallace by Wilkinson Sherren; "TP's Weekly" 10 Jan 1913 , p. 49.

NHM-WP02.003.001    Printed:    1913.11.08--1913.11.29   Approximately 55 press cuttings 8 -16 Nov 1913: obituaries of A. R. Wallace in German and French with letter, TS, in French from Argus Suisse de la Presse S.A. from Geneva, 29 Nov 1913, to William Greenell Wallace offering 55 press cuttings on the death of his father A. R. Wallace for 15 Francs. Notes: When listed both letter and cuttings were in an envelope labelled in ink "A Few Articles & Reviews " in WGW's? hand, "about self | A.R.W." in A. R. Wallace's hand and in pencil in WGW's? hand "No Autos"; separately recorded and transferred to Miscellanea: WP18

NHM-WP02.003.003    Printed:    1913.11.08   Obituary of A. R. Wallace, p. 9 "The Times", London, Saturday 8 Nov 1913; whole folio pp 9-10

NHM-WP02.003.005    Printed:    1913.11.08   Obituary of A. R. Wallace, "The Daily Chronicle", 8 Nov 1913 pp. 4, 5 Notes: 3 folios: 2 whole sheets pp 3-4 and 5-6, one column, duplicate, from p 4.

NHM-WP02.003.007    Printed:    1913.11.14   Obituary of A. R. Wallace, spiritualist paper "The Two Worlds", p. 570 (1 folio, pp. 569-570)

NHM-WP02.003.009    Printed:    1913.11.14   Obituary of A. R. Wallace, Yeovil paper "The Western Gazette", 14 Nov 1913 p 7 (1 folio, pp 7-8)

NHM-WP02.003.011    Printed:    1913.11.20   Obituary of A. R. Wallace by "E.B.P" (E B Poulton), "Nature", 20 Nov 1913 pp. 347-349 (2 folios, pp. 347-350).

NHM-WP02.003.013    Printed:    1913.11.07   Obituary of A. R. Wallace, "The Star", 7 Nov 1913; from Central News Ltd press cutting Dept; stamped envelope address to A. R. Wallace's representatives same date.

NHM-WP02.003.015    Printed:    1913.11.08   Obituary of A. R. Wallace, [London?] "Standard", 8 Nov 1913, from The Temple Press Cutting Offices, Strand, London; envelope labelled in pencil in an unknown hand "Standard". Notes: The hand on the envelope is probably Richard Wallace's though the envelope is apparently contemporary with the cuttings.

NHM-WP02.003.017    Printed:    1913.11.07   Obituary of A. R. Wallace, Evening Standard & St James Gazette, 7 Nov 1913 from Woolgar and Roberts agency; letter from Woolgar and Roberts 7 Nov 1913 to [Mr] Wallace esq requesting permission to supply all related cuttings and offering to present them in an album, enclosing a return order form with prices; stamped envelope addressed to representatives of A. R. Wallace same date.

NHM-WP02.003.019    Printed:    1913.11.08   Obituary of A. R. Wallace, "The Daily Chronicle", 8 Nov 1913 from the newspaper's press cuttings dept; envelope labelled in pencil in WGW's? hand "Daily Chronicle".

NHM-WP02.003.021    Printed:    1913.11.14   Obituary of A. R. Wallace, "The Church Times", 14 Nov 1913 p. 663 (2ff., pp. 663-664); unstamped envelope addressed to "Miss Wallace".

NHM-WP02.003.023    Printed:    1913.11.07   Obituary of A. R. Wallace, "Westminster Gazette", 7 Nov 1913, from The General Press Cuttings Association, London

NHM-WP02.003.025    Printed:    1913.11.07   Six obituaries of A. R. Wallace in stamped envelope addressed to the representatives of A. R. Wallace, comprising press cuttings from The Temple Press Cuttings Office, London from: Temple Press Cuttings Office, London from: "The Evening Standard" 7 Nov 1913 "The Globe" 7 Nov 1913 (2 cuttings) "The Evening News" 7 Nov 1913 "The Star" 7 Nov 1913 "The Westminster Gazette" 7 Nov 1913

NHM-WP02.003.027    Printed:    1913.11.08   Death notice and obituary of A. R. Wallace in unstamped envelope labelled in pencil in an unknown hand "Daily Graphic", comprising 1 cutting from "The Daily Graphic", 8 Nov 1913 headed "A Great Victorian", from the Temple Press Cutting Offices, and 1 "Daily Graphic" same date headed "Death of a Famous Scientist. | Dr. Wallace, co-discoverer of Evolution. | Specialist Memoir", from The Central News Ltd, London.

NHM-WP02.003.029    Printed:    1913.11.08   Obituaries of A. R. Wallace, "The Daily Mail", 8 Nov 1913, one headed "A Hero of Science" and the other "An Immortal of Science. | Death of Dr. A. R. Wallace", from The Temple Press Cutting Offices, London; unstamped envelope labelled "Daily Mail" in pencil in an unknown hand.

NHM-WP02.003.031    Printed:    1913.11.07   Death notice of A. R. Wallace, "The Evening Standard", 7 Nov 1913, from T B Browne Ltd press cutting department; stamped envelope addressed "Wallace Esq".

NHM-WP02.003.033    Printed:    1913.11.17--1914.02   Copy of "The Sarawak Gazette" 17 Nov 1913, no. 640, vol. XLIII, pp. [260]-271, including an obituary of A. R. Wallace on p. 262; stamped wrapper postmarked Sarawak Feb 1914 addressed to W G Wallace. Place: Borneo Sarawak

NHM-WP02.003.035    Printed:    1913.12.00   Obituary of A. R. Wallace by E B Poulton, offprint from "The Zoologist" pp. 468-471, annotated on cover in WGW's? hand "A.R. Wallace | Obituary notice…"

NHM-WP02.003.037    Printed:    1913.12.00   Journal "The Review of Reviews" (London), Dec 1913, including an illustrated obituary of A. R. Wallace, "Character Sketch", by James Marchant, pp. [421]-425; approx. 25 cm x 18.5 cm; dark blue and buff cover illustrated with a globe; annotated on the front cover, top right, in ink in an unknown hand "From Mr Marchant". Place: Broadstone Dorset London England.

NHM-WP02.003.040    Printed:    1913.11.11   Press cutting annotated in pencil in WGW's? hand "Daily News & Leader | Nov 11 1913" headed "Simple funeral of a great man", describing A. R. Wallace's funeral and naming mourners; section describing James Marchant as a minister who assisted is crossed out in pencil and "No!!" added in margin in Marchant's? WGW's? hand.

NHM-WP02.003.043    Printed:    1915.11.00   Press cutting annotated in WGW's? hand "D.C. 2-11-15", from "The Daily Chronicle"? 2 Nov 1915? re unveiling at Westminster Abbey of memorial plaques to Joseph Hooker, Lord Lister and A. R. Wallace.

NHM-WP02.004.002    Note:    [1889.11.19]   1 folio ms in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? VIW's? hand headed "Triugissime Vice Cancellarie Vosque Egregii Procuratores" with Latin [oration] admitting A. R. Wallace to Hon Degree Oxford, dated "Oxford Nov? 19th? | 1889" in same hand; copied from the original? Place: Oxford Oxfordshire England

NHM-WP02.005.002    Printed:    1916.03.00   Printed leaflet headed "A. R. Wallace Memorial Fund" in the form of a letter to subscribers by Raphael Meldola, Edward B Poulton and James Marchant, announcing the closure of the project with list of subscribers and donations made, details of the memorial medallion placed in Westminster Abbey, and actions taken and proposed for dealing with residual moneys, enclosing a photograph of the Medallion (not present) and noting the delay in issuing the letter due to the death of Raphael Meldola, the author. 1f., 4 pp.

NHM-WP02.006.001    Note:    1913.12.07   Papers re a proposal by James Marchant and /or William Greenell Wallace to write a biography of A. R. Wallace

NHM-WP02.006.003.01    Correspondence:   Cambridge Octavius Pickard, Wallace Violet Isabel  1913.12.15   Letter to Violet Wallace from Rev O. Pickard-Cambridge, from [Bloxworth] Rectory, Wareham, 15 Dec 1913, re the spider Friula wallacii named by him after her father A. R. Wallace, enclosing a reprint inscribed to her on the front cover; of his paper "On some new and little-known spiders" from Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 15 Dec 1896 including description and figure of F. wallacii; paper slip with instructions to Xerox letter and p. 1006 which may be in WGW's or another hand; envelope addressed to Miss Wallace at Old Orchard. Broadstone, postmarked 15 Dec 1913. Place: Wareham Dorset England Notes: In a modern (1998) envelope of unrelated miscellanea including proofs of "Is Mars Habitable" when listed; paper slip enclosed in reprint in an unknown hand "Xerox only letter & p. 1006 total of 2 exposures if possible." See note to WP6/5/4 ( Proofs of A. R. Wallace's "Darwinism, an exposition....") re Xerox process and speculative dates.

NHM-WP02.006.003.06    Correspondence:   Estcourt Rowland  1914.05.05   Letter from Rowland Estcourt to William Greenell Wallace, from San Francisco, California, 5 May 1914 enclosing signed 4pp. , 4 ff. TS "Recollections of the late Dr Alfred Russell [sic] Wallace"; stamped envelope addressed to WGW postmarked San Francisco 7 May [1914]. Place: California USA

NHM-WP04.004.003    Note:    1902.08.25   Sketch elevation in ink on pale blue paper for wood-lined walls of study, 25 Aug 1902, signed and dated by A. R. Wallace and apparently drawn by him. Place: Broadstone Dorset England

NHM-WP05.001.001    Printed:    1889.06.00   "Report of the Land Nationalisation Society 1888-9", printed pamphlet with some passages marked, annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand beneath date "June 1889", 30 pages plus text inside front and back covers; annotations on cover include in A. R. Wallace's hand "Mr Mills book" and in WGW's? hand "pp 18-19." These pages refer to Herbert V Mills 1889 "Poverty and the State".

NHM-WP06.002.001    Printed:    1871.02.15   Printed review from "The Academy", 15 Feb 1871, of A. R. Wallace, "Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection" (London 1870). Notes: Sheet too large to unfold fully in a standard archive box. When listed filed in box 2 with papers in a envelope addressed to Richard Wallace, postmarked 1996, labelled "Newspaper cuttings | Various" comprising press cuttings, corrected proofs, book reviews and print.

NHM-WP06.004.003    Printed:    1881.01.04   Press cutting headed "Literature | Island Life", review of A. R. Wallace's book "Island Life", annotated in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Glasgow Herald Jan. 4/1881". Notes: Contained in an envelope with papers on gunpowder storage (WP18/15) when listed.

NHM-WP06.005.002    Printed:    1889.06.00   Undated (before June 8, 1889) press cutting annotated in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Edinburgh Leader"; review by professor Geddes of A. R. Wallace's "Darwinism,: an exposition of of the theory of natural selection..." (London 1889) in small envelope labelled in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "P. Geddes | Revs of "Darwinism". Notes: Back refers to a company subscription list closing on June 8th, 1889. When listed filed in box 2 with papers in a envelope addressed to Richard Wallace, postmarked 1996, labelled "Newspaper cuttings | Various" comprising press cuttings, corrected proofs, book reviews and print.

NHM-WP06.007    Note:    1904.06.01--1904   Papers re Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1903, "Man's Place in the Universe; A Study of the Results of Scientific Research in Relation to the Unity or Plurality of Worlds". Chapman & Hall, Ltd., London, Oct. 1903 and subsequent editions and reprints. Notes: See Smith S728 for full publication details up to 1914.

NHM-WP06.008.022.[01]    Photo:    1905.09.07   36 proofs of illustrations for A R Wallace's autobiography "My Life" (London, Chapman & Hall, 1905) captioned in A. R. Wallace's and at least one other hand; incomplete set enclosed in an exercise-book cover; comprising: 1. Printed illustration of a fish, from a drawing by A. R. Wallace. Captioned in an unknown hand in ink "4. Plecostomus guacari. Fam. Loricariidae. | (One third nat. size.) " Place: Amazon Notes: Two portrait photographs of A. R. Wallace were transferred to more appropriates items or series. Proof pages approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm. Reproduced in Wallace, Alfred Russel, "My Life" (London 1905). All fairly dirty on the edges with inky fingerprint marks. 24 proof sheets are approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm, 12 approximately 23 cm x 17 cm. Most are on thick white paper without printed captions or numbers, three on thinner paper with printed text. Possibly from two or three proofs made on different dates? Both this file and WP6/8/21 contain proofs of illustrations from both vols 1 and 2 of "My Life", both incomplete. The two have not been merged because they appear to have been separated into two files by A. R. Wallace himself, though this is dubious and the reason not apparent.

NHM-WP06.008.022.[03]    Photo:    1905.09.07   36 proofs of illustrations for A R Wallace's autobiography "My Life" (London, Chapman & Hall, 1905) captioned in A. R. Wallace's and at least one other hand; incomplete set enclosed in an exercise-book cover; comprising: 3 Proof illustration of the back of an envelope postmarked Apr 10 [1869].decorated with a cartoon by T. Purland showing a mediaeval archer with a Bird-of -Paradise perched on his nose. Place: Amazon Notes: Two portrait photographs of A. R. Wallace were transferred to more appropriates items or series. Proof pages approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm. Reproduced in Wallace, Alfred Russel, "My Life" (London 1905). All fairly dirty on the edges with inky fingerprint marks. 24 proof sheets are approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm, 12 approximately 23 cm x 17 cm. Most are on thick white paper without printed captions or numbers, three on thinner paper with printed text. Possibly from two or three proofs made on different dates? Both this file and WP6/8/21 contain proofs of illustrations from both vols 1 and 2 of "My Life", both incomplete. The two have not been merged because they appear to have been separated into two files by A. R. Wallace himself, though this is dubious and the reason not apparent.

NHM-WP06.008.022.[05]    Photo:    1905.09.07   36 proofs of illustrations for A R Wallace's autobiography "My Life" (London, Chapman & Hall, 1905) captioned in A. R. Wallace's and at least one other hand; incomplete set enclosed in an exercise-book cover; comprising: 5. Proof illustration showing part of a letter and cartoon, with the printed caption "My Last Letter from Dr. Purland." The cartoon shows a man with a knife in one hand holding a cat by its tail. The proof sheet is stamped on the top left "First Proof - 7 Sep 1905" and annotated in ink in A. R. Wallace's? hand "My Life. (Dr. Wallace)". Place: Amazon Notes: Two portrait photographs of A. R. Wallace were transferred to more appropriates items or series. Proof pages approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm. Reproduced in Wallace, Alfred Russel, "My Life" (London 1905). All fairly dirty on the edges with inky fingerprint marks. 24 proof sheets are approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm, 12 approximately 23 cm x 17 cm. Most are on thick white paper without printed captions or numbers, three on thinner paper with printed text. Possibly from two or three proofs made on different dates? Both this file and WP6/8/21 contain proofs of illustrations from both vols 1 and 2 of "My Life", both incomplete. The two have not been merged because they appear to have been separated into two files by A. R. Wallace himself, though this is dubious and the reason not apparent.

NHM-WP06.008.022.[07]    Photo:    1905.09.07   36 proofs of illustrations for A R Wallace's autobiography "My Life" (London, Chapman & Hall, 1905) captioned in A. R. Wallace's and at least one other hand; incomplete set enclosed in an exercise-book cover; comprising: 7. Proof illustration of two fish, Cichlostoma severum and Cynodon scombroides, one above the other, from drawings by A. R. Wallace. Captioned in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand. Place: Amazon Notes: Two portrait photographs of A. R. Wallace were transferred to more appropriates items or series. Proof pages approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm. Reproduced in Wallace, Alfred Russel, "My Life" (London 1905). All fairly dirty on the edges with inky fingerprint marks. 24 proof sheets are approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm, 12 approximately 23 cm x 17 cm. Most are on thick white paper without printed captions or numbers, three on thinner paper with printed text. Possibly from two or three proofs made on different dates? Both this file and WP6/8/21 contain proofs of illustrations from both vols 1 and 2 of "My Life", both incomplete. The two have not been merged because they appear to have been separated into two files by A. R. Wallace himself, though this is dubious and the reason not apparent.

NHM-WP06.008.022.[09]    Photo:    1905.09.07   36 proofs of illustrations for A R Wallace's autobiography "My Life" (London, Chapman & Hall, 1905) captioned in A. R. Wallace's and at least one other hand; incomplete set enclosed in an exercise-book cover; comprising: 9. Proof illustration, portrait of A. R. Wallace's mother Mary Anne Wallace née Greenell, aged 18, from a miniature. Captioned in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand "My Mother. From a Miniature Age 18." Place: Amazon Notes: Two portrait photographs of A. R. Wallace were transferred to more appropriates items or series. Proof pages approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm. Reproduced in Wallace, Alfred Russel, "My Life" (London 1905). All fairly dirty on the edges with inky fingerprint marks. 24 proof sheets are approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm, 12 approximately 23 cm x 17 cm. Most are on thick white paper without printed captions or numbers, three on thinner paper with printed text. Possibly from two or three proofs made on different dates? Both this file and WP6/8/21 contain proofs of illustrations from both vols 1 and 2 of "My Life", both incomplete. The two have not been merged because they appear to have been separated into two files by A. R. Wallace himself, though this is dubious and the reason not apparent.

NHM-WP06.008.022.[11]    Photo:    1905.09.07   36 proofs of illustrations for A R Wallace's autobiography "My Life" (London, Chapman & Hall, 1905) captioned in A. R. Wallace's and at least one other hand; incomplete set enclosed in an exercise-book cover; comprising: 11. Proof illustration with the printed caption "Alfred R. Wallace. !878." portrait of A. R. Wallace, 1878, (aged 55) from a photo. He is shown to just below the waist, seated in a carved wooden chair, holding a book in his left hand. Both his hair and beard are white and he is wearing spectacles. Annotated in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand "My Life" and with the page and volume number inserted in his? hand. Place: Amazon Notes: Two portrait photographs of A. R. Wallace were transferred to more appropriates items or series. Proof pages approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm. Reproduced in Wallace, Alfred Russel, "My Life" (London 1905). All fairly dirty on the edges with inky fingerprint marks. 24 proof sheets are approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm, 12 approximately 23 cm x 17 cm. Most are on thick white paper without printed captions or numbers, three on thinner paper with printed text. Possibly from two or three proofs made on different dates? Both this file and WP6/8/21 contain proofs of illustrations from both vols 1 and 2 of "My Life", both incomplete. The two have not been merged because they appear to have been separated into two files by A. R. Wallace himself, though this is dubious and the reason not apparent.

NHM-WP06.008.022.[13]    Photo:    1905.09.07   36 proofs of illustrations for A R Wallace's autobiography "My Life" (London, Chapman & Hall, 1905) captioned in A. R. Wallace's and at least one other hand; incomplete set enclosed in an exercise-book cover; comprising: 13. Proof illustration of The Grammar School, Hertford, from an engraving in Turner's History 1830. Captioned in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand. Place: Amazon Notes: Two portrait photographs of A. R. Wallace were transferred to more appropriates items or series. Proof pages approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm. Reproduced in Wallace, Alfred Russel, "My Life" (London 1905). All fairly dirty on the edges with inky fingerprint marks. 24 proof sheets are approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm, 12 approximately 23 cm x 17 cm. Most are on thick white paper without printed captions or numbers, three on thinner paper with printed text. Possibly from two or three proofs made on different dates? Both this file and WP6/8/21 contain proofs of illustrations from both vols 1 and 2 of "My Life", both incomplete. The two have not been merged because they appear to have been separated into two files by A. R. Wallace himself, though this is dubious and the reason not apparent.

NHM-WP06.008.022.[15]    Photo:    1905.09.07   36 proofs of illustrations for A R Wallace's autobiography "My Life" (London, Chapman & Hall, 1905) captioned in A. R. Wallace's and at least one other hand; incomplete set enclosed in an exercise-book cover; comprising: 15. Proof illustration of a Derbyshire landscape from a drawing by A. R. Wallace, showing part of a large tree-trunk on the far left of the picture next to a road which curves to the left from the foreground, with the top of a church visible in a wooded valley to the right. Captioned in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand. Place: Amazon Notes: Two portrait photographs of A. R. Wallace were transferred to more appropriates items or series. Proof pages approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm. Reproduced in Wallace, Alfred Russel, "My Life" (London 1905). All fairly dirty on the edges with inky fingerprint marks. 24 proof sheets are approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm, 12 approximately 23 cm x 17 cm. Most are on thick white paper without printed captions or numbers, three on thinner paper with printed text. Possibly from two or three proofs made on different dates? Both this file and WP6/8/21 contain proofs of illustrations from both vols 1 and 2 of "My Life", both incomplete. The two have not been merged because they appear to have been separated into two files by A. R. Wallace himself, though this is dubious and the reason not apparent.

NHM-WP06.008.022.[17]    Photo:    1905.09.07   36 proofs of illustrations for A R Wallace's autobiography "My Life" (London, Chapman & Hall, 1905) captioned in A. R. Wallace's and at least one other hand; incomplete set enclosed in an exercise-book cover; comprising: 17. Proof illustration of a small church in a landscape from drawing by William G Wallace near Llanbister in 1840, captioned in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand "'A Lonely Chapel" | pencil sketch by W.G.Wallace 1840." Place: Amazon Notes: Two portrait photographs of A. R. Wallace were transferred to more appropriates items or series. Proof pages approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm. Reproduced in Wallace, Alfred Russel, "My Life" (London 1905). All fairly dirty on the edges with inky fingerprint marks. 24 proof sheets are approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm, 12 approximately 23 cm x 17 cm. Most are on thick white paper without printed captions or numbers, three on thinner paper with printed text. Possibly from two or three proofs made on different dates? Both this file and WP6/8/21 contain proofs of illustrations from both vols 1 and 2 of "My Life", both incomplete. The two have not been merged because they appear to have been separated into two files by A. R. Wallace himself, though this is dubious and the reason not apparent.

NHM-WP06.008.022.[19]    Photo:    1905.09.07   36 proofs of illustrations for A R Wallace's autobiography "My Life" (London, Chapman & Hall, 1905) captioned in A. R. Wallace's and at least one other hand; incomplete set enclosed in an exercise-book cover; comprising: 19. Proof illustration of the house "Whittern", near Ludlow, Shropshire, from a drawing by William G Wallace, 1842, showing the house behind trees in the middle distance with a driveway between low stone walls in the foreground. Captioned in A. R. Wallace's hand. Place: Amazon Notes: Two portrait photographs of A. R. Wallace were transferred to more appropriates items or series. Proof pages approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm. Reproduced in Wallace, Alfred Russel, "My Life" (London 1905). All fairly dirty on the edges with inky fingerprint marks. 24 proof sheets are approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm, 12 approximately 23 cm x 17 cm. Most are on thick white paper without printed captions or numbers, three on thinner paper with printed text. Possibly from two or three proofs made on different dates? Both this file and WP6/8/21 contain proofs of illustrations from both vols 1 and 2 of "My Life", both incomplete. The two have not been merged because they appear to have been separated into two files by A. R. Wallace himself, though this is dubious and the reason not apparent.

NHM-WP06.008.022.[21]    Photo:    1905.09.07   36 proofs of illustrations for A R Wallace's autobiography "My Life" (London, Chapman & Hall, 1905) captioned in A. R. Wallace's and at least one other hand; incomplete set enclosed in an exercise-book cover; comprising: 21. Proof illustration captioned in A. R. Wallace's hand, of the entrance to the cave Porth y Ogof, Vale of Neath, showing the figure of a woman in hat and long skirt standing on a ledge on the left of the picture. Black and white. From an undated and unattributed photograph. Place: Amazon Notes: Two portrait photographs of A. R. Wallace were transferred to more appropriates items or series. Proof pages approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm. Reproduced in Wallace, Alfred Russel, "My Life" (London 1905). All fairly dirty on the edges with inky fingerprint marks. 24 proof sheets are approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm, 12 approximately 23 cm x 17 cm. Most are on thick white paper without printed captions or numbers, three on thinner paper with printed text. Possibly from two or three proofs made on different dates? Both this file and WP6/8/21 contain proofs of illustrations from both vols 1 and 2 of "My Life", both incomplete. The two have not been merged because they appear to have been separated into two files by A. R. Wallace himself, though this is dubious and the reason not apparent.

NHM-WP06.008.022.[23]    Photo:    1905.09.07   36 proofs of illustrations for A R Wallace's autobiography "My Life" (London, Chapman & Hall, 1905) captioned in A. R. Wallace's and at least one other hand; incomplete set enclosed in an exercise-book cover; comprising: 23. Proof illustration in black and white of a waterfall, captioned in A. R. Wallace's hand "Llanrhaidwr Waterfall." From an undated and unattributed photograph. Place: Amazon Notes: Two portrait photographs of A. R. Wallace were transferred to more appropriates items or series. Proof pages approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm. Reproduced in Wallace, Alfred Russel, "My Life" (London 1905). All fairly dirty on the edges with inky fingerprint marks. 24 proof sheets are approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm, 12 approximately 23 cm x 17 cm. Most are on thick white paper without printed captions or numbers, three on thinner paper with printed text. Possibly from two or three proofs made on different dates? Both this file and WP6/8/21 contain proofs of illustrations from both vols 1 and 2 of "My Life", both incomplete. The two have not been merged because they appear to have been separated into two files by A. R. Wallace himself, though this is dubious and the reason not apparent.

NHM-WP06.008.022.[25]    Photo:    1905.09.07   36 proofs of illustrations for A R Wallace's autobiography "My Life" (London, Chapman & Hall, 1905) captioned in A. R. Wallace's and at least one other hand; incomplete set enclosed in an exercise-book cover; comprising: 25. Proof illustration in black and white captioned in A. R. Wallace's hand "'Maen LLia' | Upper Vale of Neath" showing a tall standing stone with hills in the background and a man standing near the stone on the right of the picture. From an undated photograph by Florence Neale. Place: Amazon Notes: Two portrait photographs of A. R. Wallace were transferred to more appropriates items or series. Proof pages approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm. Reproduced in Wallace, Alfred Russel, "My Life" (London 1905). All fairly dirty on the edges with inky fingerprint marks. 24 proof sheets are approximately 23 cm x 14.5 cm, 12 approximately 23 cm x 17 cm. Most are on thick white paper without printed captions or numbers, three on thinner paper with printed text. Possibly from two or three proofs made on different dates? Both this file and WP6/8/21 contain proofs of illustrations from both vols 1 and 2 of "My Life", both incomplete. The two have not been merged because they appear to have been separated into two files by A. R. Wallace himself, though this is dubious and the reason not apparent.