NHM-WP05.002    Legal:    [1900]   Legal document relating to the Land Nationalisation Society.

NHM-WP06.006.003    Photo:    [1900]   Images reproduced in 'The Gorge of the Aar and its Teachings' in A. R. Wallace, "Studies Scientific and Social" (London 1900) vol. 1, pp. 129-145, figs 23 and 24, comprising: 1. Proof sheet? with black and white photographic image approx. 7 cm x 10 cm showing a narrow wooden walkway with railings running through a steep narrow gorge; annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand in ink "'Studies' vol. 1. chap. V. p. 127" and "The Aarschlucht" and in pencil "Chap VI". Reproduced in vol. 1, ch. VI, p. 132, undated, attributed to Coomara Swainy (sic, for Coomaraswamy). 2. Black and white photo approximately 18.5 cm x 25 cm mounted on very slightly larger card, undated, with no annotations, showing the Terminal gorge of the Gorner Glacier, Zermatt. 3. Small sepia or faded black and white, partly hand- coloured photo approximately 9.5 cm x 7 cm showing the terminal gorge of the Gorner Glacier, Zermatt. The central section showing the plug of ice at the far end of the gorge is tinted blue. Reproduced in vol. 1, fig 24, facing p. 136. Undated, attributed to Percy Kendall. This is a reduced version of no 2 above. Place: Zermatt Switzerland Notes: "The Gorge of the Aar and its Teachings" was first published in "Fortnightly Review" August 1896.

NHM-WP06.008.020    Photo:    1900?--1900?   View of Nutwood Cottage, Godalming. Undated (c. 1900?) sepia photograph approximately 12.5 cm x 10 cm; annotations on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's and another? hand include [cop] initials | 175 screen | 1 full page very outside measurement 3 3/4 x 6/ 3/8 | keep in cover". Reproduced in "My Life" (1905) vol. 2 facing p. 103, unattributed. Notes: Date based on letters re sale of/money from and dates when working on autobiography

NHM-WP04.004.001    Note:    [1901]   Plans and elevations for A. R. Wallace's house "Old Orchard" at Broadstone, Dorset; undated, on one sheet of translucent paper in ink and colour wash, very damaged, annotations include, in pencil, "Dr Russell [sic] Wallace | Parkstone" at top left and "J Donkin- archt | Bournemouth" in pencil at bottom right; three dimensional view of the house in the centre almost torn away. Place: Broadstone Dorset England

NHM-WP04.004.004    Note:    [1901--1902]   Ground floor plan for cottage at Broadstone, in ink on white squared paper, with notes and instructions in A. R. Wallace's hand and apparently drawn by him. Place: Broadstone Dorset England

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

NHM-WP18.004.001    Correspondence:   Bates Ernest F, Bates Frederick, Bates Henry Walter, Janson Oliver Erichson, Wallace Alfred Russel  [1903]   Letter, apparently a rough draft, from Ernest F Bates to "Dear sir" (A. R. Wallace?) in reply to an enquiry made by the correspondent on behalf of a friend, undated and without address, with numerous corrections, on a sheet apparently torn from an exercise book, re the death of the writer's father (Frederick Bates?) on October 6th, his father's entomological work and books, and the possibility of the correspondent's friend obtaining information about his uncle's ( H W Bates?) papers from O E Janson.

NHM-WP04.004.007    Note:    [1904]   Old Orchard, A. R. Wallace's house at Broadstone, Dorset: sepia photographic print c. 1904? approximately 11 cm x 8.5 cm showing the front and side view of the 2 -3 storey brick house with gables and balconies and a sloping unpaved drive and grounds planted with shrubs, trees and grasses in the foreground. Annotated on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand "Old Orchard | Broadstone". A piece of torn, folded blue paper annotated in pencil "3/3/4 x 5 1/4", is attached to the back of the print by glued paper flaps. Place: Broadstone Dorset England Notes: An enlargement of this photograph with the caption "'Old Orchard' Broadstone. | (Built in 1902.)" forms the frontispiece to vol 2 of A. R. Wallace's autobiography "My Life" (London 1905). In envelope labelled "Kelly's Photos of Corfe View" (See WP4/3/1-3) when listed. Possibly photographed by (Mr?) Kelly.

NHM-WP06.008.003.[01]    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 (1): "Darwin's Letters | 1864 May. About paper on '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.[03]    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 (3) "Darwin to me in Life & Letters. | June 1876 - On my Geog Distribution ..." 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-WP06.008.004    Note:    [1904--1905]   Four sets of notes in A. R. Wallace's hand apparently for his autobiography "My Life"; approx. 10 folios of exercise book paper in each, each in a blue paper folder, labelled in A. R. Wallace's hand "Notes -1862-1870"; "Notes -1871-1880"; "Notes - 1881-1890" and "Notes -1891-1903 -1905" respectively; headings include "Life in London", notes include chronologies, addresses, publication titles and personal names.

NHM-WP06.008.012    Photo:    [1904]   Small sepia photographic print approximately 9.5 cm x 7.5 cm showing a large standing stone in a field with a man standing in profile beside it and rolling hills in the background. Annotated on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand " (8) | -3 1/2 - | Maen Llia | 1502 | Cop. initials. 175 screen | enlarge to make vertical block go one page. Very outside measurement for page is 3 3/4 x 6 3/8". Reproduced in "My Life" (1905) facing page 167 captioned "'Maen Llia," Upper Vale of Neath.' Attributed to Miss Neale. Undated (c. 1904?) Place: Neath Glamorganshire Wales

NHM-WP06.008.014    Photo:    [1904]   Small sepia photographic print approximately 10 cm x 7.5 cm showing a waterfall. Annotated on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? and possibly another hand "15 | Ysgwd Gladys | 14 & 18 to be one page | 3 3/4 x 6 3/8 is the very outside measurement | Cop. fine screen 175? initials | Keep in envelope | 3 1/2". Undated (c.1904?) and unattributed. Reproduced in "My Life" (1905) facing page 249. Place: Neath Glamorganshire Wales

NHM-WP12.019    Printed:    1904   "Les Notions Physiques fondamentales selon Spencer" by Thomas Tommasina, reprint from "Comptes rendus du IIme Congrés intern, de Philosphie (Geneva, 1904) annotated on the front cover "á Sir [sic] A. R. Wallace | Homage trés respectueux de l'auteur | Thomas Tommasina", with some annotations in pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand in the text.

NHM-WP06.008.005    Photo:    [1905]   Portrait of Thomas de Vere Wallace aged 35. Small sepia photographic print approximately 10.5 cm x 8.5 cm showing an oval miniature portrait (medallion?) in a square frame. Annotated on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? and another? hand "(9) | 1557 | Cop initials | 175 screen | Keep in envelope | S-S". Reproduced in "My Life" (1905) facing page 16, captioned "My Father. Age 35. (From a miniature.)" Unattributed and undated. Miniature c.1807? (when Mary Anne Greenell married Thomas Vere Wallace). Photo c. 1905?

NHM-WP06.008.007    Photo:    [1905]   Small sepia photographic print approximately 9 cm x 6 cm showing an engraving by of the grammar school, Hertford, from an engraving by Storer in Turner's "History" (1830), reproduced in "My Life" (1905) facing page 49. Place: England Hertford Hertfordshire

NHM-WP12.020    Printed:    1905   "Materialism" by James Crichton Browne, pamphlet, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London 1905, text annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand.

NHM-WP18.022    Note:    [1905]--[1915]   Undated folder made from a red-lined blue page from a Collection register? With annotations in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand (all crossed through) "Literary Men | Admirers &c " Recent letters (1890-1905)" followed by a list of names (crossed through). Notes: Possibly notes by A. R. Wallace when writing his autobiography, or WGW for Marchant's 1916 "Letters and Reminiscences"; when listed enclosed a corrected proof of "Remarks on The Rev. S. Haughton's paper on the Bee's cellÂ…" by A. R. Wallace, dated 1863.(See WP7/23)

NHM-WP06.008.021.[02]    Photo:    1905?--1905   18 annotated proofs of illustration used in A. R. Wallace, "My Life" (London 1905), some captioned in A. R. Wallace's hand, others with printed captions, incomplete set enclosed in cardboard cover; comprising: 2. Proof illustration in black and white, captioned in A. R. Wallace's hand "My Father from a Miniature. Age 35." Portrait of A. R. Wallace's father Thomas Vere Wallace Place: Amazon Derbyshire England Essex Godalming Surrey Leicester Leicestershire Shropshire Usk Wales Notes: Proof pages approximately 23 cm x 17 cm. All illustrations reproduced in Wallace, Alfred Russel, "My Life" (London 1905).