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S595a Book contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1901. Foreword [dated 18 April 1901]. In: Richardson, John. 1901. The education problem and its solution. London: Twentieth Century Press, Ltd., pp. 3-4. Text Image

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NHM-WP02.006.005.06.[01] Correspondence: Wallace Alfred Russel [1902--1916] List of A. R. Wallace's correspondents by type with notes re some of A. R. Wallace's letters, undated, in William Greenell Wallace's hand; in columns on fourteen folios of lined paper; approximately eight hundred names in rough alphabetical order within the categories: "Separate packets of letters" "Scientists, Biological, Geographical &c", "Scientists, Physics & Mathematics &c" "Socialists, Spiritualists, Clergymen, Anti-Vacc, -Vivs &c", "Socialists Anti Vacc - Viv, Pol. Eco. Land" "Authors, Journalists, Poets, Artists" "Politicians &c., Statesmen" "Odd Celebrities" "Curious (Cranks &c)" and "Unclassified (Unknown)" with a section on the last page headed "short reminiscences received from" not present in the typed version; some pages numbered within category. Notes: Most folios of the ms are folded, some are single, pages written on one side only. The typed version was found in box three and inserted here. PJL 19/6/03

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NHM-WP02.006.005.06.[02] Correspondence: Wallace Alfred Russel [1902--1916] TS copy of the above with slight variations, 9 numbered and 1 (last) unnumbered folios typed on one side only with corrections and annotations in pencil and red ink including the number [of letters from each correspondent?] in WGW's? hand; last page, headed "Letters received by A.R. Wallace on his 90th birthday", is not present in the Ms version.3. List in WGW's? A. R. Wallace's? hand in ink headed "Missing letters to Dr A.R. Wallace from - " listing approximately 30 names in total divided into the categories Biologists, Physicists, Social Reformers &c., Authors, Journalists &c., Politicians, and Unclassified; 1 folio of lined blue exercise-book paper written on both sides. Notes: Most folios of the ms are folded, some are single, pages written on one side only. The typed version was found in box three and inserted here. PJL 19/6/03

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NHM-WP04.004.008 Note: [1902--1905] Old Orchard, A. R. Wallace's house at Broadstone, Dorset: postcard with sepia photographic print showing a view of A. R. Wallace's house at Broadstone; with description in biro on the back by Mrs R Wallace's c. 2000; her statement that the house was designed by W G Wallace has been corrected in pencil in her own or another's hand. Place: Broadstone Dorset England Notes: With unrelated photos and papers in a small brown envelope labelled in WGW's hand "Photos of A. R. Wallace" and in Mrs R Wallace's hand c 2000 "Also Violet and William (his children)" - personal information from Mr & Mrs R Wallace 12 June 2003. None of the photos included the children when listing began; pieces have been relocated to appropriate classes; envelope destroyed.

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NHM-WP04.004.009 Note: [1902] View from "Old Orchard": three undated postcards (c. 1902?) photographer unknown, showing sepia photographic views across fields and woods to a distant town and low hills; two are identical, two form a panoramic view when placed next to each other; two are annotated on the back "Fragmented view" and the third "View from A. R. Wallace's house "Old Orchard" in Broadstone Dorset", all annotations are in biro made c. 2000 in Mrs Richard Wallace's hand. Place: Broadstone Dorset England Notes: Personal information from Mrs Richard Wallace June 2003.

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NHM-WP06.001.001 Note: [1902--1905] Note on Old Orchard Broadstone headed paper, undated, in A. R. Wallace's? hand, quoting from J W Cross, "George Eliot's Life" Vol 3, p. 164, mentioning her pleasure in reading, in 1872, A. R. Wallace's "Eastern Archipelago" (sic). Place: Malaya Notes: This was inside a letter to Fanny Wallace/Sims of 1893 when listed but can't have been an original enclosure as house at Broadstone was not built until c 1902. Last date based on the possibility that A. R. Wallace intended to use the extract in his autobiography, published that year.

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NHM-WP07.087.[01] Note: [1902] "Eternalism: A Theory of Infinite Justice", undated MS c 1902? in A. R. Wallace's hand; 15 numbered folios of lined notebook paper written on one side only, in ink with corrections; review of a book so titled, by Orlando Jay Smith (Boston and NY, 1902) Notes: When listed was with unrelated papers in an annotated 1897 envelope now transferred to series WP18, Miscellanea (WP18/25).

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NHM-WP07.087.[02] Note: [1902] ND Empty undated (c 1902?) envelope annotated in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand " Mss Review - | 'Eternalism' | McClures Mag.| £25" and in pencil in an unknown hand "Reviews". Notes: When listed was with unrelated papers in an annotated 1897 envelope now transferred to series WP18, Miscellanea (WP18/25).

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NHM-WP18.006 Correspondence: Wallace Alfred Russel [1902]--[1905] Buff envelope 19cm x 13 cm, annotated on the top flap in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Photo of self"; when listed contained a portrait of A. R. Wallace (see WP6/8/18) in a smaller envelope and unrelated photos and papers.

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NHM-WP18.007 Correspondence: Wallace Alfred Russel [1902]--[1905] Brown envelope labelled in ink "A Few Articles & Reviews " in WGW's? hand, "about self | A.R.W." in A. R. Wallace's hand and in pencil in WGW's? hand "No Autos", which contained press cuttings from German papers with obituaries of A. R. Wallace and covering letter 29 Nov 1913.

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NHM-WP18.021 Note: [1902]--[1905] Rough note in A. R. Wallace's? hand: "Articles, Letters &c. A.R.W. | 71- Papuan &c [2 illegible words] List | Lectures complete list of?"; on small sheet of cream letter paper approximately 15cm x 10cm. Notes: Possibly a file label, perhaps used when collating material for autobiography? Among letters congratulating A. R. Wallace on his 90th birthday when listed.

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NHM-WP18.023 Note: [1902]--[1915] Rough note in pencil on a small sheet of perforated lined paper in A. R. Wallace's? or WGW's? hand: "Not wanted" with illegible markings [6p? 5p?] at right angles. In the order in which the letters were received for listing, this sheet was between the sketch map of Niagara Falls (see old ref WP1/17/22) and the letter to William Wallace from Baltimore Dec 1886 (see old ref WP1/17/10) Notes: Dates based on the possibility that it was used by A. R. Wallace when preparing his biography or by WGW when sorting letters for Marchant after A. R. Wallace's death.

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S595aa Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1902. Extracts of letters. In: Fowler, Canon. 1902. The president's address. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 1901: lviii. Text Image

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S595c Book contribution: Wallace, A. R. et al. 1902. Enquiry into the economic condition of India . In: Dutt, Romesh C. 1902. Speeches and papers on Indian questions, 1891 and 1902. Calcutta:: Elm Press, pp. : 150-156. Text Image

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S597a Book contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1902. Letter [to Morrison Davidson, dated 10 August 1902]. In: Davidson, Morrison. 1902. Scotland for the Scots: Scotland revisited. London: Francis Riddell Henderson, pp. 93-94. Text Image

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WSPEC316 Periodical contribution: Distant, W.L. 1902. Rhynchotal notes – XIV. Heteroptera: families Hydrometridae, Henicocephalidae, and Reduviidae (part). Annals and magazine of natural history, zoology, botany, and geology (7) 10: 173-194. PDF

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WSPEC317 Periodical contribution: Distant, W.L. 1902. Rhynchotal notes – XVI. Heteroptera: Family Reduviidae (continued). Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology (7) 11: 203-258. PDF

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NHM-WP06.008.031 Note: 1902?--1905? Rough biographical notes in A. R. Wallace's hand in ink with crosses in red or blue pencil against many entries; 3 small folios written on one side only, the first and larger of the three headed "New Ideas" briefly listing titles or major themes of some of his works by date, beginning with 1858; the second also headed "New Ideas", numbered "2" and continuing the list at 1893; the third headed "Health ?(end of Chap.XXXIII)" beginning "Age - 6-7 - Scarlet fever - Chap. IV".

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NHM-WP07.010 Note: 1902? Note in A. R. Wallace's hand re the loss of the original Ms of his paper sent to Darwin; written on a brown envelope approx 24 cm x 14 cm, with text: "The first 8 letters I received from Darwin - (while in the Malay Archipelago) | N B The Mss of my paper sent to Darwin and printed in the Journal of the Linnean Society, was not returned to me, and seems to be lost. The proofs with the Mss. were Perhaps sent to Sir Charles Lyell, or to the Secretary of the Linn. Soc. or may some day be found. It was written on thin foreign note paper. | Alfred R. Wallace". The envelope was empty when listed. Place: Ternate Moluccas Netherlands Indies Notes: The letters were probably those sent to Cockerell for exhibition during the Darwin Centenary 1909: see letter from Cockerell 23 Mar 1909 (WP11/4). Dated on this basis and the possibility that the letters were first set aside for use when writing his autobiography, which he began in 1902: see letter to his son William 16 Mar 1902 (WP1/1/44). See also proof of Ternate paper, WP7/9.

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BL-Add.Mss46420-46421 Draft: 1903 Autograph draft for "Man's Place in the Universe" (1903). Vols. VII, VIII (ff. 263, 285). 'Man's Place in the Universe', published 1903. Footnotes added to the printed text indicate that the present MS. was complete before March 1903; the text was further revised before publication. Preface, index, etc., and star maps found at end of printed book are wanting. Autograph with corrections and revisions, except for 46420, ff. 62-66, 176-178, which are typewritten extracts from the revised edition (1903) of 'The Wonderful Century', and 46421, ff. 246, 247, which are printed diagrams.