NHM-WP02.001.005    Photo:    [1903--1913]   Very small extremely faded sepia photo showing a tall bearded old man, probably A. R. Wallace, standing in a garden near a small pond, with a young man (his son WGW?) leaning on a stone fence on the right; apparently photographed from an album or framed photograph; undated and without annotations.

S608a    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1903. Note on Nymphæa gigantea. The Garden 64 (No. 1668, 7 Nov. 1903): 310.   Text   Image

NHM-WP18.004.003    Note:    [1903]   Four folios of unsigned, undated rough ms notes in pencil, almost certainly by Frederick Bates and partly biographical, referring to ""Mr A. R.Wallace and my brother, who were then waiting instruction to join the ship that was to convey them to the Amazon", giving details of the writer's collection over a period of 14 years of entomological specimens, including Ci[n]cindelidae, (Cicindelidae?) Cantharidae and Heteromera. Two sheets are white paper, one, smaller, cream, and one blue. Notes: Writing almost illegible in places and some very faint. Folios numbered 1-4 in no particular order, can't tell where if anywhere the text logically begins. P J Lucas Feb 2003.

BM-1920,0503.5-Prints-Drawings    Photo:    1904   Lithograph. Portrait of Alfred Wallace, half-length, in three-quarter profile to right, appears to be holding papers; wearing spectacles and overcoat. 1904. Initialled and dated by artist on stone next to image at lower left: 'W.R. / 04'. Height 222 mm, width 243 mm. Acquired 1920.

NHM-WP06.008.001    Note:    [1904--1914]   Sheets in A. R. Wallace's? hand headed "List of Books and papers by Alfred R. Wallace", 4p (2 folios) old thin lined paper. Notes: Although in the third person and possibly written by WGW for Marchant, this looks much more like A. R. Wallace's own hand and has been assigned accordingly. PJL Nov 2003

NHM-WP06.008.003.[02]    Note:    [1904]   Four loose folios of notes in A. R. Wallace's hand, with dates and brief descriptions of letters to him from Charles Darwin, in an envelope from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, postmarked on the back 13 Dec 1904, addressed to Wallace and annotated in his hand in ink on the back "Darwin's letters used in my Autobiography." This annotation has been crossed through in pencil and the following further annotations in pencil in another hand (WGW's?) added: " A. R. Wallace's notes | & Darwin notes on "Island Life" - 6 f pages | & letters of A. R. Wallace to Mr Pascoe - written from Celebes & Batchian." Only A. R. Wallace's notes re Darwin's letters are now in the envelope. The folios are begin (2) "Darwin's Letters. | 1871. Jan 30th. About Descent of man ..." Notes: Dated from the envelope postmark and evidence in letters from A. R. Wallace to his family in 1904 mentioning work on his autobiography. At least one of the letters listed, re the colour of caterpillars, is quoted in vol. 2 of "My Life" so it is a reasonable assumption that this list DOES refer to quotes used in or considered for, A. R. Wallace's autobiography despite the deletion on the envelope.

NHM-WP06.008.003.[04]    Note:    [1904]   Four loose folios of notes in A. R. Wallace's hand, with dates and brief descriptions of letters to him from Charles Darwin, in an envelope from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, postmarked on the back 13 Dec 1904, addressed to Wallace and annotated in his hand in ink on the back "Darwin's letters used in my Autobiography." This annotation has been crossed through in pencil and the following further annotations in pencil in another hand (WGW's?) added: " A. R. Wallace's notes | & Darwin notes on "Island Life" - 6 f pages | & letters of A. R. Wallace to Mr Pascoe - written from Celebes & Batchian." Only A. R. Wallace's notes re Darwin's letters are now in the envelope. The folios are begin (4) "Notes. | Darwin to Hooker - Feb 1881 ..." Notes: Dated from the envelope postmark and evidence in letters from A. R. Wallace to his family in 1904 mentioning work on his autobiography. At least one of the letters listed, re the colour of caterpillars, is quoted in vol. 2 of "My Life" so it is a reasonable assumption that this list DOES refer to quotes used in or considered for, A. R. Wallace's autobiography despite the deletion on the envelope.

NHM-WP06.008.011    Photo:    [1904]   Brown envelope approximately 14.5 cm x 10 cm with rough sketch in ink of the image in the photograph reproduced in "My Life" vol. 1 facing p. 167 (chapter XI), of the Maen Llia standing stone, Vale of Neath. Annotations in A. R. Wallace's hand include "Chapter X|" and "Enlarge 1 1/2 times to make a vertical plate". This envelope contained five small photos reproduced in "My Life" including the print of the Maen Llia photo. These have been listed separately. Undated, date based on when A. R. Wallace was working on the book. Place: Neath Glamorganshire Wales

NHM-WP06.008.013    Photo:    [1904]   Sepia photographic print approximately 10 cm x 7.5 cm showing an angled view of Neath Free Library building with a lantern-shaped sign reading "Free Library" suspended over the arched entrance, a street and pavement in the right foreground and parts of buildings further down the street in the background. Annotations on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's and possibly another hand include " 13 | 1502 | (b?) of intials | firescreen 17(1/4?) | enlarge 1 1/2 times | keep in envelope | very outside measurement for page is 3 3/4 x 6 3/8". In envelope WP2/9 when listed. An enlargement of this photograph faces p. 246, vol. 1 of A. R. Wallace's "My Life" (London 1905) captioned "The Free Library, Neath, designed by A. R. Wallace. 1847." Photo (c. 1904?) possibly by Miss Florence Neale of Penarth, who supplied A. R. Wallace with the photo. (See "My Life" vol. 1, p. 246). Place: Neath Glamorganshire Wales Notes: In original box 2 in an envelope annotated in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Kelly's Photos of Corfe View" when listed.

NHM-WP12.018    Printed:    1904--1904   Benjamin Harrison, pamphlet "An Outline of the History of the Eolithic Flint Implements" (Kent, 1904), annotated in ink on front cover "Dr A. Russel Wallace | with the authors compts."; twenty-two pages; approx 2 cm x 14 cm. Place: Kent England