NHM-WP06.003.001    Draft:    [1876]   20 proof illustrations for "The Geographical Distribution of Animals, with a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface" (London 1876) drawn and/or engraved by J B Zwecker, mounted on cardboard with paper captions stuck on, a few with annotations (e.g "to face p. 1") in pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand; images B &W, captions in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand include and in form of "Characteristic Animals of Northern Ghana" (at top of plate) with common names of individual animals at the bottom; empty envelope marked on back in blue pencil "Zwecker's original sketches for Geog…". Notes: All enclosed in large torn envelope titled in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Geog Distribution Plates" on front and "Geo Dist of Ani" (rest removed) on back; these titles kept and rest of envelope discarded.; empty envelope marked on back in blue pencil "Zwecker's original sketches for Geog…" found lower down in box and added with plates to grey cardboard folder 22/6/03.

NHM-WP08.001    Printed:    1876--1900   Four botanical pamphlets by Richard Spruce 1866-1887, three with annotations in A. R. Wallace's hand (c. 1907?), one botanical work by Matthew B Slater 1906; printed obituary notice of Spruce by Isaac Bayley Balfour 1900, with passages marked (by A. R. Wallace?) and printed memoir of George Bentham by J D Hooker, 1898. Notes: Last date based on the fact that A. R. Wallace was working on his edition of Spruce's "Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes" in 1906 and 1907.(See letters from A. R. Wallace on the subject, mainly 1907). All the pamphlets have been put into one acid-free envelope but should probably go into individual acid-free containers. PJL 15/4/03

NHM-WP06.003.001[.10]    Photo:    [1876]   Proof plate from Wallace's 1876 publication "The Geographical Distribution of Animals". Plate entitled "Characteristic Birds of the Upper Amazon S. America".

NHM-WP06.003.001[.07]    Photo:    [1876]   Proof plate from Wallace's 1876 publication "The Geographical Distribution of Animals". Plate entitled "Characteristic Mammals of Borneo".

NHM-WP06.003.001[.04]    Photo:    [1876]   20 proof illustrations for "The Geographical Distribution of Animals, with a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface" (London 1876) drawn and/or engraved by J B Zwecker, mounted on cardboard with paper captions stuck on, a few with annotations (e.g "to face p. 1") in pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand; images B &W, captions in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand include and in form of "Characteristic Animals of Northern Ghana" (at top of plate) with common names of individual animals at the bottom; empty envelope marked on back in blue pencil "Zwecker's original sketches for Geog…". Notes: All enclosed in large torn envelope titled in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Geog Distribution Plates" on front and "Geo Dist of Ani" (rest removed) on back; these titles kept and rest of envelope discarded.; empty envelope marked on back in blue pencil "Zwecker's original sketches for Geog…" found lower down in box and added with plates to grey cardboard folder 22/6/03.

NHM-WP09.003.001    Note:    1877?   Ms in A. R. Wallace's hand headed "Distribution of Animals as indicating Geographical Changes", probably mss of or based on "The Comparative antiquity of Continents, as indicated by the Distribution of Living and Extinct Animals", read RGS meeting June 1877 ( See Shermer, p. 367); 15 numbered folios, each about half a sheet of blue lined foolscap paper; in an annotated envelope labelled in an unknown hand in pencil "A2", in ink in A. R. Wallace's? hand (Crossed out in pencil) " Lecture on Ancient Continents &c" and in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand "Bristol Halifax spring 1878 | Cardiff Bradford autumn 1878 | "Distribution of Animals as indicating Continental Changes"; annotated faintly in pencil on back in A. R. Wallace's hand "The Forest Fund Committee have issued their 7th Report." Notes: Also in the envelope when listed was a modern printed label "Manuscript lecture on Distribution… 15 sheets with dates and places given", presumably a NHM library label used for display at some period before listing; label destroyed October 2003. Ms Needs to be unfolded.

NHM-WP07.052    Note:    1878?--1899.04.10   Ms and TS on the subject of gunpowder storage

NHM-WP01.004    Correspondence:   Wallace Annie née Mitten  1879--1903   Letters to Annie Mitten/Wallace: 13 letters and 2 postcards from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie, from Britain and Europe 1879-1903; 2 letters to Annie from Arabella B Buckley 1883. See also letters from A. R. Wallace to Annie Wallace in letters from America and Canada, WP1/5 Notes: The letters by A. R. Wallace were removed from general correspondence initially listed with ref WP1/19 including those in subject files labelled in WGW's? hand, almost certainly selected by or for James Marchant for use in writing "A. R. Wallace - Letters and Reminiscences" ( London 1916). The letters by Arabella Buckley were removed from a brown cardboard box in the form of a book, titled "Letters" on spine, containing various apparently unrelated letters and other papers (old ref WP2/1).

NHM-WP07.041.[04]    Printed:    1879   Press cutting from "The Academy" 12 Apr 1879, pp. [326] -327 with a review by A. R. Wallace of an English translation (1879?) of Ernst Haeckel, "The Evolution of man: A popular exposition of the principle points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny"; 2 ff.

NHM-WP07.055    Correspondence:   Price Bonamy, Mallet Sir Louis  1879   Correspondence with J? Bonamy Price on Free Trade, Reciprocity and Louis Mallet, numbers 1-6 in cardboard cover with spine title "G Gray Birds of Aru Is New Guinea" in ink in A. R. Wallace's? hand, labelled on front in blue pencil in WGW's? hand "Reciprocity &c Bonamy Price", comprising: WP7/55.01 to 07. Notes: In Large modern envelope labelled in R Wallace's hand "Correspondence with Myers Typed copies | Obits | Reciprocity Correspondence | Notes (for 'My Life'?)" with draft letter re Waterlow Park (but no obits) when listed- envelope discarded. Smith: S312. A Few Words in Reply to Mr. Lowe. Nineteenth Century 6: 179-181 (July 1879: no. 29).

NHM-WP07.055.[07]    Draft:    1879   Proof or offprint, pp [1]-3, of "A few words in reply to Mr. Lowe" by A. R. Wallace, annotated and corrected in A. R. Wallace's hand, with press cutting in three sections pasted onto back, headed in A. R. Wallace's hand "Daily News July 9th Finance Article".

NHM-WP04.002    Note:    [1880--1881]   Undated plans of Nutwood cottage Godalming and sketch map of Hindhead road, Knoll Road and Sandy Lane area, Godalming, 5 sheets and envelope, comprising: 1. "Elevation - West front" in black ink on 1 sheet waxed linen; 2. "Elevation - South Front" ditto 3. "Bedroom Plan" (partly coloured) ditto 4. Plan of ground floor (untitled but with annotations ) in ink on brown greaseproof paper 5. Sketch map in pencil on similar but thinner paper of area for sale around Hindhead and Knoll roads and Sandy Lane; all writing in A. R. Wallace's hand; all folded. 6. Cream envelope labelled in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Plans of Nutwood cottage Godalming" Place: Godalming Surrey England Note: Folded many times and some deeply creased and dirty in places. They have been refolded on the original lines and need a larger container.

NHM-WP06.004.001    Note:    [1880]   Seven undated, unsigned folios of notes in Charles Darwin's hand; annotated at the top of the first folio in A. R. Wallace's hand "Darwin's notes on 'Island Life"' and "Notes have been recorded in text." Comments with page references on Wallace's text, e.g. "p. 46 - I am sure that I have read of a Mus from Viti Isd., but this may have been introduced . . . p. 68 - I most heartily concur about [separated?] genera of [illegible] family ..." etc., presumably re A. R. Wallace's "Island Life: Or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates". Macmillan & Co., London, Oct. 1880. Notes: On blue foolscap, the first six folios written on one side only, numbered 1,2,3,"addendum to p. 3", 4, 5, 6. When listed here these notes were in an acid-free envelope annotated, probably by E B c 2001/02 "Listed as '6 sheets of notes relating to Darwins comments on Island Life'. Possibly by Darwin?". The quote is from the rough box list made by C. Mills when the papers were inspected. Handwriting identified as Darwin's by descendant Quentin Keynes 2005.

NHM-WP10.003    Note:    1880--1897   Cardboard cover with spine title "Adaptive colouration" in ink in A. R. Wallace's? hand, front title "Notes on examinations" in extremely faint red pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand, with "1891-97" in ink over blue pencil below this, containing annotated printed elementary and and advanced Physiography examination papers and notes 1880 to 1890 (excluding 1887). Most annotations appear to be in A. R. Wallace's hand. The contents, 47 folios, are as follows: Folios 1 to 33 (including folder):.Folder made from a postal cover of a journal from the Entomological Society of London, stamped and postmarked (18)80?, titled on the opposite side in ink in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Physiography 1880" with "to 1890" added in pencil, followed by a list of examinations papers by year, in ink. An undated printed and annotated examination paper is pasted onto the inside surface. The folder contains 32 loose folios which include printed physical geography examination papers 1880 to 1889 inclusive with the exception of 1887, and notes in A. R. Wallace's hand on the questions and answers, and on examination (board) meetings. Folios 34 and 35:Physiography examination paper 1891, elementary and advanced, 1 folio print, enclosing ms notes on the questions, in A. R. Wallace's hand. Folios 36 and 37.Two folios of ms notes in A. R. Wallace's hand, on the 1892 physiography exam questions. Folios 38 and 39: Physiography examination paper 1893, elementary and advanced, enclosing ms notes on the questions, in A. R. Wallace's hand. Folios 40 and 41: Physiography examination paper 1894, elementary and advanced, enclosing ms notes on the questions, in A. R. Wallace's hand. Folios 42, 43 and 44: Physiography examination paper 1895, elementary and advanced, enclosing ms notes on the questions, in A. R. Wallace's hand. Folio 45: Physiography examination paper 1896. Folios 46 and 47: Physiography examination paper 1897, elementary and advanced, enclosing ms notes on the questions, in A. R. Wallace's hand. Notes: For convenience of location the loose papers have been numbered in pencil in square brackets but not recorded as separate pieces. In this case, because the file is relatively large, to save time enclosures have not been treated as sub-sets of the enclosing document, but numbers are sequential. P J Lucas Feb 2003

NHM-WP06.006.004    Photo:    [1881--1900]   Notes and annotated proof sheets? of images illustrating 'Monkeys: Their Affinities and Distribution', in A. R. Wallace, "Studies Scientific and Social", (London 1900) vol. 1, Ch.VII, pp. 146-184, figs 25-43, comprising: 1. Rough notes in ink and pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand on one sheet headed on the front "Woodcuts" with a list of primate species beginning with Lemur Catta, some crossed through, with page and/or figure number references to figures in Flower and Lyddeker, Bates and Zoological Society publications. 2 - 19: Small page or part-page proof-sheets? with annotations in A. R. Wallace's hand showing woodcut and engraved? images varying in size from approx. 6 cm x 5cm to 9.5 cm x 15 cm, of various primates species including Gorilla, Lemur and Loris; and a diagram of the skull of an Aye-Aye; all reproduced in Ch. VII, figs 25-43; attributed to Flower and Lyddeker, Huxley, Bates, and the Zoological Society of London. Notes: "Monkeys: Their Affinities and Distribution" was first published in "Contemporary Review", Dec 1881. Images are from Flower, W H and Lyddeker, R, "An introduction to the study of Mammals living and extinct" (London 1891), Bates, H W, "The Naturalist on the River Amazon" (London 1863), Huxley, T H "Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays" (London? 1863) and "List of the Vertebrated Animals now or lately living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London" (London, various editions from 1828 onwards).

NHM-WP07.052.[01]    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel  1882   Envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace at Godalming, postmarked from The Admiralty, 22 July 1882, annotated in blue in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's ? Hand "Storage of Gunpowder", containing pieces 1-4 and 6 when listed

NHM-WP08.001.002    Printed:    1882--1882   "On Cephalozia (a genus of Hepaticae) its subgenera and some allied genera" by Richard Spruce. (J W Slater, Malton: Printed for the author. 1882). Paperbound octavo. pp. [i]-vi, [1]-96 plus index. There are no obvious annotations in the volume.

NHM-WP17.004.001    Photo:    1882--1882   View of the interior of a cave (in Virginia, USA) with stalactites and stalagmites near a path and wooden steps, captioned "42. Saracen's Tent, Caverns of Luray. Photo and copyright by C.H.James. Phila. 1882." Sepia photographic print approximately 13 cm x 21 cm mounted on card. Annotated on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Cop. Initials fine screen 1 page very outside measurement 3 3/4 x 6 3/8 Keep in envelope" and and possibly another hand "1502 | 3 1/2 | f". Place: Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA Virginia USA Notes: This photograph is reproduced in A. R. Wallace, "My Life" (London 1905) vol. 2, facing p. 137.

NHM-WP09.001.003    Printed:    1883--1893   2 printed folios apparently pages [5], [6], 7 and 8 from the proceedings? of the Tyneside Sunday Lecture Society, 1893? one headed "List of lectures delivered in previous sessions" listing titles and lecturers, covering dates 1883-1892; annotated in blue pencil in WGW's? hand "Newcastle | Dates of Lectures " and in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand "Tyneside Sunday Lecture Society"; lectures by A. R. Wallace marked in ink with a cross. Place: Newcastle upon Tyne Tyne and Wear England

NHM-WP13.001.013    Printed:    1885   Printed pamphlet (part?), undated, on the Flat Earth wager, 1 f headed on one side "The Most Startling Topic of the Day!" and on the other "The Following is addressed to a Member of the Royal Geographical Society … What is a Swindler?…" Notes: Formerly in unlabelled wallet of miscellaneous unrelated papers

NHM-WP17.006    Photo:    1885--1890   "The Arena Gallery of Eminent Thinkers"; pale blue (grey on with dirt on the outside but true colour shows on the folds) embossed paper folder so titled in decorative print (possibly by hand) with black ribbon tie, enclosing 40 loose leafed printed portrait photographs of eminent people with their autographs, including A. R. Wallace; with contents page listing portraits by name and number within the categories Poets, Clergymen, Women, Young American Writers, Men of Letters and Scientists and Philosophers, published by the Arena Publishing Co, Boston, Mass. (USA), undated; all apparently present but not in numerical order; portrait of A. R. Wallace aged about 60 is on top followed by Charles Darwin in old age. Notes: Date based on dates of some of the "Young American Writers", born c, 1860s and apparently aged mid-twenties or thirties in portraits, and apparent age of A. R. Wallace in portrait.

NHM-WP06.006.009    Photo:    1886--1900   Sketches and proof sheets of images illustrating native American tools and implements in 'American Museums', in A. R. Wallace, "Studies Scientific and Social", (London 1900) vol. 2, Ch. 2; and other sketches and notes relating to America and American Museums comprising: 1-7: Original ink sketches of Indian arrowheads, pottery & other implements from the Smithsonian Museum, in ink on small squared paper sheets, marked up in blue pencil and annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand; each pasted inside a folded piece of blue-green letter paper, some with notes in his hand on the inside, numbered on the outside in blue, possibly in WGW's hand, numbers 1-7; sheets in numbers 1 and 7 have sketches on both sides. When listed enclosed in small buff envelope labelled in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Notes on sketches of H[unt] [Hunt] implements" (item 19 below). Most reproduced as figs 5-8 and 10-24 in vol 2, Ch. 2, pp. 41-52.; sketches and equivalent figures in the chapter as below: Folder 1 - fig. 7 Folder 2 - figs 5, 6, 8 and 10 Folder 3 - figs 13, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Folder 4 - fig. 12 Folder 5 - figs 11 and 14 Folder 6 - figs 19, 21 and 23 Folder 7 - figs 20, 22 and 24 ( 24 on back of sheet). 8. Proof illustration approximately 11.5 cm x 9.5 cm showing thirteen prehistoric implements (from drawings made by A. R. Wallace? at the National Museum, Washington) including one serrated obsidian spearhead labelled "California III". Annotated at the bottom in pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand "cf letters on cells" crossed through. Stamped on the back in red "Walker & Boutall 16 Clifford's Inn Fleet Street London" and annotated in black in an unknown hand "Wallaces Studies | 2670 | 2nd print | Novr 30/99"; reproduced as fig. 7, vol. 2, p. 42. 9. Sheet of notes on a Macmillan & co compliments slip with notes in ink and pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand headed "Twisted or Spiral cut Arrowheads" and proof illustration approximately 11.5 cm x 8 cm showing five prehistoric arrowheads (from drawings made by A. R. Wallace? at the National Museum, Washington), reproduced as fig. 9, vol. 2 p. 44. Sheet cut in half and pinned to notes when listed; the back is stamped in red with the right-hand section of the stamp "Walker & Boutall 16 Clifford's Inn Fleet Street London" and annotated in black in an unknown hand "Implements | 2670 | ny 13 1900", part of the text "Wallaces Implements | 2670 | Jany 13 1900" on the full sheet (see item 10 below.) 10. Proof illustration approximately 14 cm x 10 cm showing various prehistoric implements (from drawings made by A. R. Wallace? at the National Museum, Washington) including in the centre stone scrapers and arrowheads, marked into sections in pencil. Sheet cut in half; the back is stamped in red with the left-hand section of the stamp "Walker & Boutall 16 Clifford's Inn Fleet Street London" and annotated in black in an unknown hand "Wallace" and "Ja", part of the text "Wallaces Implements | 2670 | Jany 13 1900" on the full sheet ( see item 9 above); reproduced as figs 5, 6, 8 and 10 vol. 2 pp. 41-43. 11. Proof illustration approximately 19 cm x 14 cm showing various prehistoric implements (from drawings made by A. R. Wallace? at the National Museum, Washington) including at bottom left the stylised figure of a llama, marked into sections in pencil with annotations in ink in A. R. Wallace's? hand (ink over fainter printed image of writing) crossed through in ink. The back is stamped in red "Walker & Boutall 16 Clifford's Inn Fleet Street London" and annotated in black in an unknown hand "Wallaces Implements | 2670 | Jany 13 1900"; reproduced as figs 19-24, vol. 2 pp. 49-52. 12.Proof illustration approximately 19 cm x 14 cm showing various prehistoric implements (from drawings made by A. R. Wallace? at the National Museum, Washington) including at top left stone spoons or cups viewed from above, marked into sections in pencil. The back is stamped in red "Walker & Boutall 16 Clifford's Inn Fleet Street London" and annotated in black in an unknown hand "Wallaces Implements | 2670 | Jany 13 1900"; reproduced in vol. 2 as figs 11and 12 (p 45) 13, 14 and 15 (p. 46) and 16, 17 and 18 (p. 48). 13. Notes on a small squared paper sheet approx. 8 cm x 15 cm in A. R. Wallace's hand in ink over pencil beginning " Pipes human & animal form in Ohio & Illinois", apparently notes on specimens of native implements displayed in American Museums; enclosed when listed in folder 1 of items 1-7 above. 14. Faint pencil sketches on both sides of a small squared paper sheet approx. 8 cm x 15 cm: one side showing a stone knife? captioned in pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand "Chipped flint. Mound. Macon Co. W. Virginia" and an axe head? decorated with the figure of a man apparently killing a snake, captioned "A[r]t. Coll. Cincinnati"; the other side showing a map or geological diagram with strata? labelled "hill of Loess", "loess" and "mid. drift gravel with pebbles", captioned "W. Sioux City".15. Notes on a small squared paper sheet approx. 8 cm x 15 cm in A. R. Wallace's hand in pencil and ink beginning on one side in pencil "Leaving Clifton Forge | 7 am | (1) Lowmoor - low furnaces in rows", apparently notes of a train trip through Virginia and the views and geological features seen, with notes of time and place including 8.40 at Fort Spring at the bottom of the page and continuing increasingly illegibly overleaf where three sketches in ink,of a stone arrowhead, hoe, and gouge, headed "Occasional - N.Y. Museum" with notes, are upside down with relation to the train journey notes. Enclosed when listed in folder 1 of items 1-7 above. 16. Notes and sketches on a small squared paper sheet approx. 8 cm x 15 cm in A. R. Wallace's hand in pencil and ink beginning on one side in ink over pencil "Ruined Pueblo of Penasco Blanca"; sketches in ink overleaf, of Sioux, Utah Indian and Eskimo stone tools including knives, pick and hammer, headed "American National Museum Washington"; not reproduced in "Studies Scientific and Social". 17. Sketch of a tomahawk in ink on a small squared paper sheet approx. 8 cm x 15 cm, captioned in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand "Stone tomahawk. | Modern Indian." 18. Folder made from two lined exercise-book pages, titled on the front in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Illustrations for | American Museums | Proofs &c." When listed this contained one small squared paper sheet of notes on pueblos and sketches of Sioux, Utah Indian and Eskimo stone tools headed "American National Museum Washington" (item 16 above) but no other documents or images. 19: Envelope labelled in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Notes on sketches of H[unt] implements". 20. Faint pencil outline sketch of a mountain range on a small squared paper sheet approx. 8 cm x 15 cm captioned in A. R. Wallace's hand in pencil "Alleghanes [sic, for Alleghenies i.e. Alleghany Highlands] nr Clifton Forge" with an arrow pointing out "N. Mountain"; diagrams in pencil of 5 circles, one overlapped by an irregular square, on the back; old ref WP2/16/47, possibly done on the same day as the notes mentioning Clifton Forge (item 15 above). Place: New York USA Virginia USA Washington DC USA Notes: "American Museums" was first published in "Fortnightly Review", Sep and Oct 1887. Several letters from A. R. Wallace to his family from America mention the Museums (see particularly WP1/5/12, 19 Dec 1886).

NHM-WP13.001.008    Printed:    1886?--1886?   Printed pamphlet, 8 pages, titled "John Hampden's letter to Professor Huxley, President of the Royal Society ... Suggested by his article in the Nineteenth Century, for December, 1895, in reply to Mr. Gladstone's comments on the book of Genesis." London, 1886? Annotated in pencil on the front in (John Hampden's?) hand "A.R.W. is (two illegible words) referred to." The hand is the same as that on the printed address by Hampden to A. R. Wallace of August 1885. Some sections of the text have been marked in red pencil. Place: London England

NHM-WP14.002    Printed:    1886--1913   Press cuttings, most from North American newspapers with a few from British papers reporting news from America; on a variety of subjects including reports of A. R. Wallace's visit and lecture tour. Notes: When listed these were among 36 cuttings in an envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace, postmarked Leeds April (19)13, annotated on the back in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand "Press notices of new book sent me "; the envelope and press reviews of some of his books have been transferred to series WP6, papers [re books by A. R. Wallace]; 1 from a (British?) paper 1901 on an incident in Cairo has been transferred to WP14/1; press cuttings on various topics. NOTE: Some reviews of A. R. Wallace's books have been RELOCATED and placed with papers re the particular book reviewed. All brittle, many folded many times and need larger container, some small tears.

NHM-WP17.004.002    Photo:    1886?--1886?   View of a high waterfall with pine woods in foreground, (Yosemite National Park, California USA) captioned "B 1057. Bridal Veil Falls, 900 Feet. Taber Photo., San Fran" Sepia photographic print approximately 24 cm X 17 cm, with part of caption on the right missing, mounted on slightly larger card. Place: California USA Notes: Date based on the year that A. R. Wallace was in the USA. There are no annotations on the back. Not reproduced in either "My Life" or "Studies Scientific and Social" but possibly reproduced in some other work not seen.