NHM-WP06.010.004.[03]    Printed:    1911--1912   Cutting made by The Authors Clipping Bureau, Boston, Massachusetts of a review with no by-line of A. R. Wallace's book "The world of life. A manifestation of creative power, directive, mind and ultimate purpose" (New York, 1911) from the Louisville, Kentucky "Courier Journal" 17 Jun 1911; annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand "A very good & fair review". Place: England USA Note: Torn

S690ab    Book contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1911. What Is wrong with your house and how it Is to be bettered. In: The Book of the Exhibition of Houses and Cottages; Romford Garden Suburb Gidea Park. London: Exhibition Committee, p. 19

S689    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1912. Extract of letter extracts to Clement Reid. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 80: 577-578.   Text   Image

S696a    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1912. Euphorbia Wulfenii. The Garden 76 (no. 2120, 6 July 1912): 339.   Text   Image

S703ac    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1913. Arms and the man. Pall Mall Magazine 52 (July 1913): 47 (45-50).   Text

NHM-WP02.003    Printed:    1913--1947   Obituaries and Memoirs of Alfred Russel Wallace: Obituaries, death notices, descriptions of his funeral and memoirs of A. R. Wallace and some related papers, 1913-1947, mostly press cuttings with some entire magazines and reprints, from UK newspapers and spiritualist and scientific journals and a few from the USA and other countries, including cuttings from one Swiss and several UK press-cutting agencies with the original envelopes; all or most marked up (by WGW?) in blue pencil; note of A. R. Wallace's illness and time of death by William Greenell Wallace dated 7 Nov 1913, on headed paper without addressee; rough design in ink by WGW? for inscription on gravestone. Notes: Almost all brittle, dirty, crumbling or heavily folded. Scattered throughout all four boxes in which the collection arrived. Pieces WP2/3/2-12 are mostly full sheets from broadsheet newspapers and were in a cover made from boards of a damaged blue foolscap size notebook when listed; cover discarded; pieces WP2/3/13-34 were in a large white modern envelope addressed A King Esq Modus engineering; envelope destroyed; most of the remainder were in a document wallet containing other, unrelated material.

NHM-WP02.006.003    Note:    [1913--1916]   Originals and copies of reminiscences of A. R. Wallace by family, friends and colleagues, with related correspondence and papers including copies of some letters by him and a reprint in which Friula wallacii, a spider named after him, is described; most or all published or referred to in Marchant (1916).

NHM-WP17.014    Photo:    [1913]   Sepia photo approximately 15 cm x 11 cm showing a roofless brick cottage with partly completed building behind to the right, washing on a line and snow on the ground in front. Annotated on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand "Done by a landlord to a tenant who always paid her rent! | Nr Guildford." Undated and unattributed (A. R. Wallace?) Place: Guildford Surrey England Notes: In envelope labelled "Photos &c for Studies" (i.e. "Studies Scientific and Social") when listed. The image is not reproduced there and no related essays seem to be included in the text.

S702a    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1913. [Letter to Edward B.Poulton, dated April 2, 1913]. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 125: 26   Text   Image

NHM-WP18.026    Note:    [1913]--[1951]   Label: "A .R.W. 90th | Birthday | Congratulations" in pencil in WGW's? hand on a small sheet of cream paper approximately 11 cm x 9 cm. Notes: Among letters to A. R. Wallace, mostly on his 90th birthday (1913) when listed. Dates based on periods when WGW might have been sorting A. R. Wallace's papers.

NHM-WP16.003.003    Note:    1913?--1914?   One folio CC, headed "Dr. Wallace's Library", p. 3; duplicate copy of p. 3 of 10 in a list of A. R. Wallace's books (see WP16/3/2)

NHM-WP02.006.002.03    Note:    [1914--1915]   Rough undated notes in ink in an unknown hand re A. R. Wallace's experiences in the Malay Archipelago, beginning "1854 went to the Malay Archipelago - a part of the world quite unknown then - and full of the most wonderful birds and insects." 2 pp. on 2 ff.

NHM-WP02.003.042    Note:    [1915]   Undated design c.1915? in William Greenell Wallace's? hand, for inscription on gravestone of A. R. Wallace and Annie Mitten/Wallace, with their names and dates of birth and death and dimension of design in inches. Notes: Date assumed from Annie's death on 10 Dec 1914.

S707    Book contribution:     Clodd, Edward. 1916. Memories. London: Chapman and Hall, pp. 64-65.   Text   Image

WS1.2    Book:     Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2.   Text

S707a    Book contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1920. From Alfred Russel Wallace. In: Le Prade, Ruth. 1920. Debs and the poets. Pasadena, California, Upton Sinclair, p. 40.   Text   Image

S709    Periodical contribution:     Pickens, A.L. 1934. Letters concerning Wallace, Newton and Tristram. Auk (n.s) 51: 404-405.   Text   Image

S711    Periodical contribution:     Carpenter, Hale. 1939. A letter from A. R. Wallace to F.p. Pascoe, written from Ternate, 20 December 1860. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (Series A) 14: 77-78.   Text   Image

NHM-WP16.004    Note:    1949--1950   Papers 1949-1950 re the sale of skins of Birds of Paradise collected by A. R. Wallace, including correspondence between William Greenell Wallace and the BMNH, the University Museum Oxford, and the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge. Place: New Guinea

S734a    Book contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 2002. Peixes do Rio Negro; Fishes of the Rio Negro (organization, introductory text and translation by Mônica de Toledo-Piza Ragazzo). São Paulo: Editora da Universidade de São Paulo, Imprensa Oficial do Estado.

S712c    Periodical contribution:     Rosenfeld, R.A. 2009. Alfred Russel Wallace and the RASC. Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 103 (4, August): 165-168.   Text   Image   PDF

NHM-WP03.005    Note:    Undated   MS in an unknown hand (possibly two hands), beginning "Why is the Sea salt?" containing an autobiographical tale, possibly fictional, including anecdotes about life as a sailor and set in places including Geelong (Victoria, Australia); 61 pages of text, approx 60 pages blank; undated; written in black ink in a notebook with lined paper; approx 18 cm x 11 cm; gold -edged sewn pages, faded gold fabric cover with tooled leaf pattern on the cover edges. Place: Africa Australia Notes: The hand or hands may be Herbert Wallace's and/or A. R. Wallace's when young, Violet Wallace's, one of their Australian cousins or another person's. Neither Richard Wallace nor his cousin J G Wilson know anything of its provenance (personal information 2003).

NHM-WP06.008.010    Photo:    undated   Black and white photo annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand in faint pencil [illegible] mountains | in the distance", showing a field of cut hay in the foreground, a stone cottage or house partly hidden by trees on the right and a mountain range in the background; reproduced in A. R. Wallace's "My Life" vol. 1, p 165 captioned "The Beacons (looking south)"; see also WP6/8/24.

NHM-WP07.116.[01]    Note:    undated   Ms notes in A. R. Wallace's hand titled "The Supposed 'Dimensions' of Space | Shown to be a verbal quibble ..." ; undated; on exercise book pages, ten folios all numbered except for the first which contains the title; with part of an envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace at Broadstone (date illegible) and annotated in his hand on the back "Mss on Dimensions of Space ..."

NHM-WP12.039    Note:    undated   Brown envelope labelled in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Sundry Articles"; originally containing printed papers by authors other than A. R. Wallace, together with proofs of appendix of "Man's Place in the Universe", now relocated. Notes: Kept because of label as the hand is probably though not certainly A. R. Wallace's.

NHM-WP17.005.023    Photo:    undated   Brown paper folder labelled in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? or his son William's? hand "Nature Portraits" and annotated in ink at right angles in an unknown hand "By Passenger Train | Carriage Paid". This folder enclosed the 22 portraits of scientists issued by "Nature" 18873-1884, WP17/5/1-22 Notes: Dirty and acidic. Put into a melinex sleeve to protect the top and bottom prints and placed in the acid-free envelope with them. END LIST WP/2/8

NHM-WP18.002    Note:    undated   "Systematic Index", 2 folios, pp. [xii] - xvi] of an undated, untitled printed index to bird species, with annotations and deletions in A. R. Wallace's? hand, possibly final proofs from a book.

NHM-WP18.010    Note:    undated   Otherwise blank sheet apparently from a journal annotated/labelled in A. R. Wallace's hand "Extracts &c America"

NHM-WP18.028    Note:    undated   Brown cardboard box approximately 25.5 cm x 18 cm x 5.5 cm, in the form of a book, titled "Letters" on spine, with marbling on 3 edges. Labelled inside lid "No. 1 large 8vo Stone's Patent Box for the safe & Orderly Keeping of all Letters, Papers and Documents . . ." . The label is partly covered by a modern Post-It note with a rough and incomplete list in Richard Wallace's hand (c. 2000?) of some of the letters which it contained when delivered to the Museum. The contents have now been transferred to a number of more appropriate series.

LINSOC-MS656    Figure:    undated   Large watercolour drawing of a painted malocca at Caruru

LINSOC-MS140d    Note:    undated   Miscellanea, part 4

NHM-WP01.003.001    Note:    undated   3 folios, date unknown, written on one side only, giving A. R. Wallace's whereabouts at various dates and listing 58 letters by author, correspondent and date. Notes: List in date order except for the last entry, no 58, which is 1858. There is a loose note c. 2001? (destroyed): "Missing no 18". No 18 is listed as "A. R. Wallace to G Silk, June 1848." The following loose notes above the list in an unknown hand have been destroyed: 1. "This has Bates Ternate 1858 letter" annotated in another hand "Xerox" and 2. "Letter to Bates Amboyna Jan 4 1858 | postscript Ternate Jan 25, 1858 | Also separate sheet with insects of the Eastern Archipelago collected by A R Wallace from May 1 1854 to Jan 1, 1858". See note to WP6/5/4 ( Proofs of A. R. Wallace's "Darwinism, an exposition….") re Xerox process and speculative dates.

NHM-WP07.114    Note:    undated   Label, "Mss & Proofs of articles &c. by A.R.W." in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand in ink on a sheet of letter paper; "Mss" has been deleted in pencil and a pencilled tick added below the text. Notes: Found loose in original box 3 of the papers when listed.

NHM-WP17.010    Note:    undated   A small watercolour of a spray of three pink and one white azalea? flowers with foliage, undated and unsigned, approx 16cm square, on translucent brown paper. Notes: Found when listed in a Large envelope labelled in Richard W's? hand "Illustrations of Palm trees" containing printed illustrations of palm trees and a cartoon depicting a zoological society meeting (WP17/9)

LINSOC-MS140c    Note:    undated   Miscellanea, part 3

NHM-WP01.001.152    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace William Greenell  undated   1 sheet folded and written on two sides in Mrs Richard Wallace's hand as follows: Letters from A.R. Wallace to his son W.G. Wallace June 1889 June 1911 & 2pcs. Letter no 42. Ref treatment of smallpox | reprint of Malay Archipelago | vaccination. Letter No 44 Donkey & Cart | Plants from Sir Thomas Hanbury. Letter No 29 Househunting! | Beaconsfield | Nr Owens House - The Grange | 70 acre estate with potential! November 1900 (A. R. Wallace aged 77?). Letter no 26 A. R. Wallace giving instructions to his son William !! aged 29!! Letter No 78 (text ends here) Place: Dorset England