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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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".

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.

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

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

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

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

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."

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

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

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

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

NHM-WP01.008.029    Correspondence:   Butter Stanley E?  1913.01.18   Letter [no description] Place: Tunbridge Wells Kent

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

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