NHM-WP06.008.023    Photo:    1889?--1905   16 proof illustrations for "My Life" on large sheets approx 29 cm x 23 cm, all but one captioned in A. R. Wallace's hand in ink; between coarse cardboard sheets, the top one labelled in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand in ink "'My Life" | Proofs of Illustrations - large size | not quite complete'. Notes: The un-captioned proof, not reproduced in "My Life", is an oval-framed head and shoulders portrait of Wallace aged about 50?, 3/4 face looking to the viewer's left, hatless and wearing spectacles. Annotated card very acidic; bottom blank card discarded.

S715[10th]    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1890. The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. London and New York: Macmillan and Co.   Image   PDF

BL-Add.Mss46432-46433    Draft:    1890--1908   Autograph drafts. Vols. XIX, XX (ff. 345, 337). Contributions to periodicals, etc., 1890-1908, some of which were reprinted with minor corrections and insertions and with the addition of illustrations and sub-headings in Studies Scientific and Social, 2 vols., 1900 (hereafter Studies). Except where noted the articles bear printer's marks; occasional additions and corrections were made in proof. Where possible dates of composition have been deduced from internal evidence.

NHM-WP01.002.017    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace William Greenell,  [1890]   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Corfe View, Parkstone, Dorset Sunday (1890?) re Violet's studies and effort to obtain a hedgehog for teaching purposes; damage to William's eyes in a laboratory accident; A. R. Wallace's thoughts on the publication "Why does man Exist"; Violet's illegible writing. Place: Dorset England Notes: A strip of paper from the letter to which this is a reply is pasted onto the last page and contains the text " give a [critism] [criticism?] lesson on". Dated on basis of original position in bundle, date doubtful. Annotated in an unknown hand "Book | Why does man Exist".

NHM-WP18.004.004    Note:    [1890]   Brown envelope without stamp annotated in ink "Re Early Entomological Days | recent letter from Dr Wallace &c" and below this in pencil in the same hand "E.F. Bates | 16 Phoenix Lodge mansions | Brook Green | London W. " in an unknown hand, apparently the same hand as used in the rough draft letter WP18/4/1.

S712aw    Book contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1890. Letter [to Theodore D. A. Cockerell, 1890]. In: Cockerell, T.D.A. & Weber, William A. 2004. The valley of the second sons: letters of Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell. Longmont, CO: Pilgrims Process, p. 508.   Text

WSPEC351.15    Book:     Sclater, Philip L. 1890. Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum, vol. 15: Passeriformes Tracheophonae. London: Trustees of the British Museum.   PDF

S435[.1]    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1891. A notable example of the natural organic power through which mediums are influenced. The Two Worlds 4 (193, 24 July): 435-436.

NHM-WP06.006.005    Photo:    [1891--1900]   Annotated proof sheets? of images illustrating 'Flowers and Forests of the Far West', in A. R. Wallace, "Studies Scientific and Social", (London 1900) vol. 1, Ch. X, pp. 213-234, figs 49 and 50, comprising: 1. Proof sheet? with black and white photographic image approx. 9 cm x 13 cm showing three tall Sequoia? tree trunks, the central one apparently partly stripped of bark, annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand in ink "The 'Mother of the Forest; (dead) Calaveros Grove" and in pencil " To face p. 807 of proof" and "chap. X". Reproduced in vol 1, ch. X as fig. 49, facing p. 228 captioned "The Mother of the Forest", undated and unattributed. 2. Proof sheet? with black and white photographic image approx. 9 cm x 13 cm showing a large multiple trunk to the largest stem of which is fastened a sign reading "Col. Ingersoll's Cathedral"; annotated in ink n A. R. Wallace's hand "Redwood Tree (Sequoia sempervirens) Sta Cruz" and in pencil "to face p. 809 of proof". Reproduced in vol 1, ch. X as fig. 50, facing p. 232, undated and unattributed. Place: California USA Notes: "Flowers and Forests of the Far West" was first published in "Fortnightly Review" Dec 1891.

NHM-WP14.001    Printed:    1891--1910   7 press cuttings from various papers and journals 1891-1910 and undated, on the subject of protective colouration in animals, Mark Twain, Shakespeare, cooperative smallholdings, fox-hunting in the army, and infant prodigy.