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NHM-WP17.018.[2]
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[1870]--[1880]
Illustration captioned "Church of St. Nicholas, Ghent", black and white woodcut or engraving showing the church in the middle ground, with a horse and carriage nearby and four or five small groups of people in Victorian dress in the street in the foreground; approximately 9cm x 7cm, apparently cut from a book or journal. Place: Ghent Belgium Scotland Notes: Possibly from "The Illustrated London News" or a similar paper. Both cuttings were found loose among William Greenell Wallace correspondence.
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S715.1Dutch
Book:
Wallace, A. R. 1870. Insulinde: het land van den orang-oetan en den paradijsvogel; uit het Engelsch vertaald en van aanteekeningen voorzien door p. J. Veth. Amsterdam: p. N. van Kampen. Volume 1.
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NHM-WP01.008
Correspondence:
Wallace Alfred Russel
1870--1913
Miscellaneous Correspondence 1870-1913 A-Z: 136 Letters, telegrams and postcards to A. R. Wallace and a few by him, to and from miscellaneous correspondents 1870-1913, some with enclosures including one photograph. The letters are arranged alphabetically by author in the case of letters to A. R. Wallace and by correspondent within the same series in the case of letters from him. The bulk of the letters is dated 1911-1913 congratulating A. R. Wallace on reaching or approaching his 90th birthday and/or reacting to an interview with him in the newspapers at the time or criticising of his latest books; other topics include the award of his Order of Merit, poverty and unemployment, and some scientific subjects. The file includes letters from scientists, scientific societies, spiritualist societies, corporate bodies, members of the public and family friends. Notes: The bulk of the letters were in a taped cardboard book folder annotated in WGW's hand "Not wanted" (old ref WP1/18); 23 letters from a brown cardboard box in the form of a book, titled "Letters" on spine, first listed as item WP2/1 (former item title Correspondence 1849-1913); approximately 25 letters in a box file of unrelated material (old ref WP3/39) from original box 3 (as numbered in the rough box list supplied when listing began) and a few from box 4, have been incorporated.
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NHM-WP01.008.130
Correspondence:
Wallace Alfred Russel
1870--1913
Letter from E (Charles?) Williams to Mr Wallace (A. R. Wallace?) from (Queens?), on paper headed High Bank, Addiscombe, Croydon, Friday (no month or year), re proposed visit to Wallace on Sunday afternoon. Place: Croydon Surrey England Notes: Mr Williams, spiritualist Medium? See Raby p. 190 - but no dates. Post 1870?s. The letter was folded around 3 photos of a house and grounds labelled "W.J. Stillman" (see separate record WP17/12) but no mention is made of them in the letter.
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NHM-WP02.001.008
Photo:
[1870]
Portrait of Annie Mitten/Wallace: head and torso portrait photograph of a young woman, (Annie Wallace) 3/4 profile facing to the right in relationship to the viewer, centred in a broad sepia background. Her hair is pulled back into a plait or bun and she is wearing a dark dress buttoned to the neck, with a high white ruffled collar. Annotated on the back in pencil in an unknown hand "Mrs A R Wallace". On the bottom margin is printed "Sims 70, Lillie Rd., West Brompton, London, S.W." Faded sepia photographic print by (Thomas) Sims, undated, approximately 16.5 cm x 11 cm. Place: London England Dirty, with pencil scribble near the top.
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NHM-WP15
Note:
1870--1907
Mitten, William, Papers 1870-1907: Print, correspondence, and samples of a grass in an envelope, 1853-1907, by and relating to William Mitten, including reprints of papers on Botany, Geology and Natural History sent to Mitten by authors including J T Kirk and Clement Reid, and printed obituaries of Mitten c.1906-1907.
WP15/1 Mitten Papers: Correspondence -
WP15/2 Mitten Papers: Print -
WP15/3 Obituaries and Memoirs of William Mitten -
WP15/4 Mitten papers: Ephemera
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NHM-WP17.018.[1]
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[1870]--[1880]
Illustration captioned "Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries-shire", black and white woodcut or engraving showing a distant view of the castle between trees in the close foreground; approximately 9cm x 7cm, apparently cut from a book or journal.
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S531a
Book contribution:
Wallace, A. R. 1870-1889. Letters [to James Croll, 1870-1889]. In: Croll, James. 1896. Autobiographical sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., etc. London: E. Stanford, pp. 247, 247-249, 271, 334-335, 336-337, 337-339, 358-359, 361, 382, 387, 440-442, 468-469, 470-471.
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WSPEC353
Book:
Gray, John Edward. 1870. Catalogue of Monkeys, Lemurs, and Fruit-Eating Bats in the Collection of the British Museum. London
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