NHM-WP17.004.004    Photo:    1886?--1886?   View of high sheer cliff with wooded slopes and a river in the foreground. (Yosemite National Park, California USA). Captioned "B 2617. El Capitan, 3,300 ft., (looking out the Valley.) Taber Photo., San Francisco." Sepia photographic print approximately 19 cm x 24 cm, mounted on slightly larger card. Annotated on the back in an unknown hand "057 | 16279". Place: California USA Notes: Reproduced in A. R. Wallace's "Studies Scientific and Social" (1900) vol. 1 fig. 2 p. 6. Date based on the year that A. R. Wallace was in the USA.

NHM-WP07.042.[04]    Printed:    1887   Press cutting from "The Nation" no. 1128, pp. [121]-122, undated (1887?) , headed "The American School of Evolutionists", a review by A. R. Wallace of E D Copes, "The Origin of the Fittest: Essays on Evolution" (New York, 1887), partly pasted onto two sheets of red-lined blue paper, the second annotated in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand " A.R. Wallace | Written at Washington D.C.";

NHM-WP09.001.001    Note:    1887--1887   Ms list of 8 lecture titles with notes on how illustrated, in A. R. Wallace's hand written on the back of headed paper from the Hamilton hotel, Washington D.C. USA, 1 folio hand headed "Mr A R Wallace's Lectures on Natural History" ; undated but almost certainly 1887; see A. R. Wallace's letters to his family from the Hamilton hotel 1887 in letters from the USA and Canada. Place: USA

NHM-WP08.001.005    Printed:    1887--1907?   "Lejeunea Holtii, A new Hepatic from Killarney" by Richard Spruce, reprint with dark blue cover, from the Journal of Botany, vol.25 (Feb 1887) pp 33-82 plus tab. 272. Passages on pp. 36, 75 and 76 are marked in blue pencil, with marginal annotations in Spruce's? hand on pp. 75 and 76. The front cover is dated "(1887)" in A. R. Wallace's? hand, annotated "Spruce | Very interesting discussion on the distribution of Hepaticae &c" in A. R. Wallace's hand, and "Marked Copy pp. 75-76" in A. R. Wallace's? or WGW's? hand. Place: Ireland Notes: Last date based on the period when A. R. Wallace was working on his edition of Spruce's Journal, and therefore the likely date of the annotations in his hand.

NHM-WP09.005    Note:    1887?   Papers re lectures by A. R. Wallace on Spiritualism

NHM-WP14.002.003    Printed:    1887?   Cutting from "The Times" (London), Friday (date missing), on the production-line slaughter and butchering of hogs in a Chicago meat works. Two sections pasted together. The reverse contains parts of police reports on offences committed in Soho and Pimlico (London). Place: England USA

NHM-WP14.002.005    Printed:    1887?   Cutting from a (Denver, Colorado?) paper, column 1 page 8, undated, (1887?) headlined "Forming a new party" on the formation of the American Party to be represented Colorado by Henri R Foster, outlining its political platform. Several points, including proposed control of immigration, nationalisation, land ownership and monopolies, have been marked in pencil. The reverse contains advertisements. Place: USA

NHM-WP14.002.010    Printed:    1887?   Undated (1887?) cutting from an (Ohio?) newspaper with the headline "Couldn't Support Him" by (or reprinted from) "Texas Colonel", a joke in dialect about an old Negro man and a political candidate. The reverse contains part of a report on a political meeting on the governorship of Ohio addressed by John A Bingham. Place: USA

NHM-WP14.002.012    Printed:    1887?   An undated (1887?) cutting (from "The Post", Washington?) a humorous poem with no by-line titled "Pay with Caire" on the subject of U.S. taxes, each line ending in word ending in "aire" e.g. "dealaire" (dealer) "liquaire" (liquor). The reverse shows part of a report on political support for Mr Cleveland. (The President, Grover Cleveland?) mentioning a Washington "Post" correspondent. Place: USA

NHM-WP14.002.024    Printed:    1887?   Cutting, New York Sun, undated (1887?) headlined "A Shrewd Old Panther | How he Lay for a Minnesota Hunter and Attacked Him Four Times" Place: USA

NHM-WP05    Note:    1888--[1901]   The Land Nationalisation Society, a Socialist land-reform society whose aim was "to restore the Land to the People and the People to the Land" (Society's report 1891-92, back cover), was formed in 1881 with A. R. Wallace as President and was still in existence in 1905. The few papers in this class comprise two reports published during his Presidency and a legal agreement re land mortgage. WP5/1 1889-1892 Published Reports. WP5/2 [1900] Legal documents

NHM-WP09.004    Note:    1888--1890   Ms lecture notes in A. R. Wallace's hand, on the origin and uses of colours in animals. File of two sets of notes with the two annotated envelopes in which they were enclosed.

NHM-WP17.016.[01]    Printed:    1888--1888   Page approximately 24.5 cm x 15.5 cm, printed on one side only, from "Proceedings U.S. National Museum", Vol. X1, 1888. Plate XVII, black, white and grey illustration of skeleton or fossil leaves of Aralia notata and Platanus basilobata, Ward.

NHM-WP17.016.[03]    Printed:    1888--1888   Two pages each approximately 24.5 cm x 15.5 cm, (one folded folio) each page printed on one side only, from "Proceedings U.S. National Museum", Vol. X1, 1888. Plate XX, black, white and grey illustration of skeleton or fossil leaves of Platanus occidentalis, Platanus appendiculata, and Sassafras officinale; and Plate XX1, Sassafras officinale and Sassafras cretaceum.

NHM-WP18.008    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel  [1888]--[1914]   Small cream envelope approximately 14 cm x 8cm, empty, annotated on the back in pencil in WGW's? hand "Newhaven | Anecdotes Marsh" and on the front in Annie Wallace's? A. R. Wallace's? hand in ink "A. R. Wallace's letters from U.S.A. 1886-1887 | & some press cuttings" with "Wanted" written in pencil above in the same hand? and "Copied WGW | Aug/15" written in pencil below in WGW's? hand. Place: Newhaven Connecticut USA Notes: Speculative dates based on possibility that original contents were collected together byARW after he returned from the USA, and date WGW might have been collecting material for Marchant.

NHM-WP01.002    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet  1889--1905   Letters to Violet Wallace: 130 letters or part-letters, some with enclosures, from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, 1889-1905 and undated, one (10 Oct 1897) with an addendum by her mother Annie Wallace, most from Corfe View, Parkstone, Dorset, and addressed "my dear Violet" from "Your affectionate father" or "Your affectionate Papa". Notes: The bundle was in rough date order before listing and has been rearranged into accurate date order as far as possible. Letters with incomplete dates (e.g. "Sunday" have been kept with letters next to them in the original bundle. Each letter numbered sequentially in pencil in square brackets by PJL, 2002, from the earliest May 16, 1889 [1]

NHM-WP06.005.003    Draft:    [1889]   Proofs? "Wallace's Darwinism", review, by J Arthur Thomson of "Darwinism: An exposition of the theory of Natural Selection…" (A. R. Wallace, London 1889) from "The Theological Review"; five folios, pp [15] -24, with annotations in pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand and "See last page" in his or WGW's hand on first page ; undated, 1889? Notes: Formerly with letters to A. R. Wallace from S B J Skertchly in 1913 envelope from "the Auk"; assumed to be misfiled.

NHM-WP09.004.002    Note:    1889--1890   7 folios of MS notes, some cut and pasted, consisting of a first page titled "The Origin and Uses of the Colours of Animals" followed by folios numbered 2 to 7. The notes are folded into an opened envelope labelled in A. R. Wallace's? hand in pencil "A2" and in ink and pencil "Lecture 1 | The Colours of Animals. | 1889 York, Darlington, Newcastle (2) Liverpool (2) 1890 - Dundee" Place: England Scotland Notes removed from envelope in order to relax the crease along the fold, both notes and envelope put into an acid-free paper folder. Envelope torn and foxed, pages foxed.

NHM-WP12.012    Printed:    1889?--1889?   "Prohibition at Work" by "E.T.B", British Women's Temperance League Leaflet no 7, undated (c 1889) ; 1 folio (4 pages).

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.

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.

NHM-WP15.002.014    Printed:    1891   Kirk, T, "On the botany of the Antarctic islands" reprinted from the Transactions of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science vol III, 189, pp. (213)-231. Place: Antarctica Australia Notes: Almost certainly sent to William Mitten by the author.

NHM-WP01.002.023    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Lubbock John  [1892]   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset, Tuesday evening (1892?) re A. R. Wallace's lecture tour; gardening; Violet's lessons on seeds, sending book by Lubbock. Place: Dorset England York Newcastle Darlington Durham Notes: Annotated in an unknown hand in blue pencil "-92". Dated on basis of this annotation, but date doubtful.