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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

2152.

NHM-WP17.015 Note: undated Route map of the British Islands, approximately 24 cm x 18 cm on one sheet of paper approximately 23 cm x 29 cm. Printed by Bean & Sons, Leeds. Undated. Black and white outline, with areas hand-coloured in pink (by A. R. Wallace?). Directional arrows and border of coloured area pencilled in and annotations in pencil including "Direction of ice movement" in A. R. Wallace's hand. Notes: In envelope labelled "Photos &c for Studies" (i.e. "Studies Scientific and Social") when listed. The image is not reproduced there though it may be related to two articles "The Ice Age and it's Work..." first published in "Fortnightly Review" in November and December 1893, reprinted in "Studies..."

2153.

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.

2154.

NHM-WP18.005 Note: undated Paper label in ink in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Scientific | A"

2155.

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

2156.

NHM-WP18.011 Note: undated Label "Wallace | Evolution &c" in ink in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's?hand, on the blank side of a postcard printed with the address of Edward Hamer & Co, Welsh Mutton purveyors, Llanidloes. Notes: Folded; apparently used as a file label

2157.

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.

2158.

NHM-WP18.031 Note: undated Nine undated and unlabelled "Stone's Universal" brand document wallets with tape ties, in which some of the A. R. Wallace family papers were stored on arrival at the NHM and before listing. Pencilled notes and temporary reference numbers in square brackets on the wallets were added by P J Lucas during sorting and listing. The wallets appear old and may have been used by A. R. Wallace himself at some time, but there is no direct evidence that he did.

2159.

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

2160.

LINSOC-MS140a Note: undated Miscellanea, part 1

2161.

LINSOC-MS140d Note: undated Miscellanea, part 4

2162.

LINSOC-MS140e Note: undated Miscellanea, part 5

2163.

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.

2164.

NHM-WP06.005.006 Correspondence: Wallace Alfred Russel undated Envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace at Parkstone from The Auk, New York 13 Oct 18 [illegible] labelled in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand on back in blue pencil "Darwinism | Notes &c for new edition | Proofs of corrections 3rd edition" and in lead pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Some may be useful for 'The World of Life"'. Notes: When first listed contained letters from S B J Skertchly, a review of "Darwinism" by J A Thomson and a reprinted letter to the Editor by A. R. Wallace, all now separately recorded

2165.

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.

2166.

NHM-WP09.002 Notebook: undated Mss. Lectures on the subject of the tropics; three undated notebooks in A. R. Wallace's hand Notes: Possibly for BAAS meeting Aug-Sep 1863 (See Michael Shermer 2002, p. 153). Could be from A. R. Wallace's American tour 1886-87, UK tour 1890; RI lectures c 1908 or others, but BAAS meeting seems likely as he lectured there "On the Varieties of Men in the Malay Archipelago" (Shermer, p. 153). Press cuttings may help date them.

2167.

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)

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LINSOC-MS140b Note: undated Miscellanea, part 2

2169.

LINSOC-MS140c Note: undated Miscellanea, part 3

2170.

NHM-WP01.001.139 Correspondence: Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace William Greenell undated Paper label attached to part of a cardboard wine-glass box. "Letters from A. R. Wallace to his son W.G. Wallace June 1889-June 1911. And 2 post cards", is written on it in ink in Mrs Richard Wallace's hand. The label is 14cm x 10cm, with decoration showing an otter and butterfly among bulrushes, World Wildlife Fund (UK) Trading Ltd logo and text, all printed in green on cream paper. The remainder of the box, which contained the letters listed in WP1/1 when the collection was delivered to the Museum, was an unsuitable, acidic container, judged to have no historical value, and has been destroyed. nil Notes: The number 139 was accidentally omitted when numbering the letters so has been assigned to this piece for convenience.

2171.

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

2172.

NHM-WP01.006.008 Correspondence: Birch Frederick R, Wallace Alfred Russel, Scofield ?, Reiche Eugenis?, Cotton Sir Arthur Thomas, New Age The undated Brown envelope, very torn and brittle, annotated in A. R. Wallace's or WGW's? hand "Fred. Birch's latest letters (to Dec?1910.)" which contained the letters and postcards from Fred Birch to A. R. Wallace from Brazil, 1899 and 1910, when received at the NHM. Notes: Included because of the annotation but could probably be destroyed. PJL March 2003.