NHM-WP01.003.062    Note:    [1856]   Undated MS in ink and pencil A. R. Wallace's hand, headed "The Chinaman at Singapore" with brief notes re the typical Chinese merchant, shopkeeper, planter and coolie, and Kling (Chettiar) tradesmen.   Text   Image

NHM-WP19.17a    Figure:    1857   Ink and pencil sketch of Dobbo, Aru   Image

NHM-WP07.009    Printed:    1858   "On the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection. by Charles Darwin… and Alfred Wallace… Communicated by Sir Charles Lyell… and J. D. Hooker…" from The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society for August 1858 (read 1 July 1858); final proof or reprint sewn into brown paper cover labelled in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Species | Darwin ^ Wallace"; pp. [1]-62 with correction and additions in A. R. Wallace's hand in ink and a note on the back flyleaf in pencil in his hand, beginning "1860. Feb | After reading Mr Darwin's admirable work 'On the Origin of Species'…" Place: Ternate Moluccas Netherlands Indies Notes: When listed this was in an acid free envelope labelled in pencil by NHM library staff c2000 "1858 Lin. Soc. Paper | species - Darwin/Wallace | Box 3 Box file" .

NHM-WP19.13a    Figure:    1859   Pencil sketch "Banda from Harbour."   Image

NHM-WP06.008.019    Photo:    1862--1862   Sepia portrait photograph c.1862 with plain pale background, of a young dark-skinned man with short dark wavy hair, wearing a dark jacket and waistcoat and white collar with white bow-tie. He is facing the camera, looking down and to the viewer's left. Annotated on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand "Ali, my Malay Boy" and in pencil possibly in another hand ""-3 1/2 -" and "64". An enlarged reproduction of this photograph faces p. 383 in A. R. Wallace's "My Life" (1905) vol. 1 A. R. Wallace states there that the photograph was taken in Singapore by "a friend". Dated from context. Place: Singapore Malaya Notes: TRANSFERRED TO PAPERS RE 'MY LIFE'; WP6/8

NHM-WP12.003.005    Printed:    1863   Pascoe, Francis P, "List of the Colydiidae collected in the Indian Islands by Alfred R. Wallace Esq., and descriptions of new species"; offprint from the Journal of Entomology, vol. II, no. IX, 1863, pp. [121]-143 and plate VIII Place: Netherlands Indies

NHM-WP12.035.[01]    Correspondence:   Kingsley Charles  1863   Envelope annotated in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand "C Kingsley - believed he was, in youth 'possessed by a Devil"'

NHM-WP12.035.[03]    Note:    1863   Undated notes in A. R. Wallace's hand headed "Kingsley Letters &c (1856) [sic] Feb 26"; 1 small folio of stiff blue letter paper, contained in envelope no 1 above when listed.

NHM-WP04.005    Figure:    1864   Two architectural designs for a Museum, by A. R. Wallace; with envelope: 1. Plan in pink, brown and yellow coloured ink on blue lined paper approx. 20 cm x 32 cm, headed in A. R. Wallace's hand "Museum of Natural History - Grand Plan of Central Portion" with measurements and labels in A. R. Wallace's hand. 2. Elevation including position of display cases and sketches of specimens, in pink, brown and yellow coloured ink on blue lined paper approx. 20 cm x 32 cm, headed in A. R. Wallace's hand "National Museum of Natural History". 3. Blue envelope labelled in A. R. Wallace's hand "Sketch for a National Museum of Natural History - 1864 - | one somewhat similar sent to Prof. Owen about 1863." Notes: Filed with house plans for A. R. Wallace's house "The Dell" when listed

NHM-WP06.005.005    Note:    1864--1904   Cardboard folder labelled on the spine in print in A. R. Wallace's? William Greenell Wallace's? hand "Scraps - Darwinism" and on the front in blue pencil " Variation | Notes - Diagrams" and in lead pencil "Extracts from early Reviews of Origin of Species" in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand; approx 24 cm x 15 cm; containing forty-one separate folios comprising: 1- 5: Quotations in A. R. Wallace's hand from reviews of Darwin's "Origin of Species" 6-38: Ms notes and diagrams in A. R. Wallace's hand relating to chapter three ("The Variability of Species in a State of Nature") of his book "Darwinism, an Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection with some of its Applications (1889; 2nd ed 1890, 3rd 1901) 39: Letter, incomplete copy in A. R. Wallace's hand, from A. R. Wallace to an unknown correspondent, from Westbourne Grove Terrace 24 May, annotated in an unknown hand "1864"; with thanks for criticism of A. R. Wallace's paper 'Human Races and the Antiquity of Man Deduced from the Theory of "Natural Selection"' ( Journal of the Anthropological Society of London. 2: clviii-clx; read 1 Mar 1864) 40: Letter from A. R. Wallace to Samuel Butler, from Waldron Edge, Duppas Hill, Croydon 9 May 1879 with thanks for and criticism of Butler's books "Life and Habit" (1878) and "Evolution Old and New" (1879) 41: Postcard to A. R. Wallace from H Tiedeman, from Fordwych Road Hampstead 13 Dec 1901, re "Wallace's Line", asking whether his views on distribution of species as expressed in the most recent edition of "The Malay Archipelago" have changed, with annotation in A. R. Wallace's hand dated 10 Apr 1904. Notes: Each folio has been numbered in pencil in square brackets to assist counting but to save time no reference nos added. Most but not all diagrams (graphs) are published in some form in A. R. Wallace's "Darwinism" (1889, and 2 later editions). Some of these papers may be misfiled but as all seem relate in some way to the subject they have not been separated. PJL Dec 2003. 6-38: Ms notes and diagrams in A. R. Wallace's hand relating to chapter three ("The Variability of Species in a State of Nature") of his book "Darwinism, an Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection with some of its Applications (1889; 2nd ed 1890, 3rd 1901) 39: Letter, incomplete copy in A. R. Wallace's hand, from A. R. Wallace to an unknown correspondent, from Westbourne Grove Terrace 24 May, annotated in an unknown hand "1864"; with thanks for criticism of A. R. Wallace's paper 'Human Races and the Antiquity of Man Deduced from the Theory of "Natural Selection"' ( Journal of the Anthropological Society of London. 2: clviii-clx; read 1 Mar 1864) 40: Letter from A. R. Wallace to Samuel Butler, from Waldron Edge, Duppas Hill, Croydon 9 May 1879 with thanks for and criticism of Butler's books "Life and Habit" (1878) and "Evolution Old and New" (1879) 41: Postcard to A. R. Wallace from H Tiedeman, from Fordwych Road Hampstead 13 Dec 1901, re "Wallace's Line", asking whether his views on distribution of species as expressed in the most recent edition of "The Malay Archipelago" have changed, with annotation in A. R. Wallace's hand dated 10 Apr 1904.

NHM-WP07.033    Printed:    1864--1865   "On the Varieties of Man in the Malay Archipelago" by A. R. Wallace, offprint in green paper cover of a paper read 26 Jan 1864, pp. [196]-215, annotated on front of first page in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand "From Transactions of the Ethnological Society. 1865 (Vol. 3)" and on the front cover "Alfred R Wallace | Man in the Malay Archipelago"; "1865" has been added in blue pencil in his or WGW's hand.

NHM-WP03.010    Notebook:    1865--1889   Notebook opened at each end, containing details of seances, a list of converts to Spiritualism, poetry, statistics on exports, a study of his children from birth, and lists of plants species. It was used by Alfred Russel Wallace from c. 1865 to c. 1889

NHM-WP08.001.003    Printed:    [1866]   "Précis D'un Voyage D'Exploration Botanique dans L' Amérique Equitoriale, pour servir d'introduction provisoire à son ouvrage sur les Hepatiques de L'Amazone et Des Andes, par Richard Spruce." pp [1]-20. Offprint from Révue Bryologique, Aug 1866, no 3. In French. Annotated faintly in pencil on the top right of the cover, in Richard Spruce's hand "A. R. Wallace | Souvenir d' amitié | de l'auteur." Extensively underlined in ink, lead and red pencil throughout, particularly place-names; a few marginal annotations in ink and pencil in Spruce's hand. Place: Amazon Andes South America

NHM-WP09.001.002    Note:    1867--1895?   List in A. R. Wallace's? hand on four small account-book pages (1 folio) headed "Lectures" listing amounts paid for lectures with dates covering 1867 -1894 and places in England, Scotland and Ireland but not titles of lectures; not in strict chronological order; titles of earlier lectures are noted on one page. Place: England Ireland Scotland

NHM-WP17.004.006    Photo:    1868?--1868?   View of trees and three tall tree trunks, probably California Redwood (Sequoia gigantea), two trunks in the foreground with a woman in bonnet and ankle-length dress seated apparently on an upholstered seat set into the base of the tree on the right, a lattice-like frame enclosing the mid-section of the trunk in the centre of the picture. Sepia photographic print approximately 21 cm x 31 cm, mounted on slightly larger card. Annotated on the back in A. R. Wallace's? hand in pencil " Not exceeding 5 5/8 | 3 1/2" with arrows indication dimensions. Annotated in an unknown hand in pencil "183 | 16348". No caption present. Possibly a Taber photo. Place: USA Notes: Reproduced in A. R. Wallace's "Studies Scientific and Social" (1900) vol. 1 fig. 49, p. 8, captioned "The 'Mother of the Forest' (Dead) Calaveras Grove." Date based on the year that A. R. Wallace was in the USA, but possibly earlier.

NHM-WP12.005    Printed:    1869   Pamphlet "British Association for the Advancement of Science. Exeter Change for the British Lions. Edited by Snug the Joiner" [J C Brough] (London 1869); satirical history, papers and address to the President of the BAAS, including "The Development Hypothesis ... by General Fitz Müddler" pp. 10-12, with a passage on page 12 describing Wallace ("Mr Darwin's alter ego") marked by a pencil line in the margin; 30 pages; approx 12 cm x 15cm; pages 19-22 inclusive have been cut out. Notes: A pencilled list of items in box 2 possibly in Richard Wallace's hand (not EB) was found loose near this work: placed in an envelope marked [for Richard Wallace 12 June] in the box containing old ref WP2/25 onwards. PJL 3/6/2003

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.

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.

NHM-WP17.018.[1]    Note:    [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.

NHM-WP10.001    Note:    1870--1879?   Examinations in Physiography; print and Ms notes

NHM-WP10.001.[02]    Printed:    1870--1879?   Printed examination paper, Physical Geography elementary, advanced and honours, examiner Professor Ansted. 1876.

NHM-WP10.001.[04]    Note:    1870--1879?   Ems notes, 1 folio with a table of statistics headed "Elementary papers exd by A.R.W" in pencil on the front and notes on some exam questions in ink on the back. The notes are written over illegible text in faint blue pencil.

NHM-WP10.001.[06]    Note:    1870--1879?   Copies in an unknown hand of candidates' answers to physical geography examination questions, undated, folded inside a sheet of lined paper labelled in A. R. Wallace's hand "Year not known | Prof Anstey's (Ansted?) Time". 3 folios including cover.

NHM-WP10.001.[08]    Printed:    1870--1879?   Printed examination paper, Physical Geography elementary, advanced and honours, examiners Professor John W Judd and J Norman Lockyer Esq., 1879, containing four sheets of copies in A. R. Wallace's hand of candidates' answers to some of the questions in the paper.

NHM-WP10.002.[02]    Printed:    1870?--1888?   Physical Geography No 2 Examination paper, A. Physical geography of Palestine. 1 folio print, undated, with annotations including, at the top, "Marks".