NHM-WP06.008.021.[04]    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: 4. Proof illustration in black and white, captioned in A. R. Wallace's hand "Herbert Edward Wallace. Age 8. | From a pencil sketch by Miss Townsend." 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).

NHM-WP06.008.021.[06]    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: 6. Proof illustration in black and white, captioned in A. R. Wallace's hand "In Derbyshire | From Pencil sketch by A.R.Wallace. 1844." 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).

NHM-WP06.008.021.[08]    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: 8. Proof illustration in black and white, captioned in A. R. Wallace's hand "Llanbister, Radnorshire | Pencil sketch by W.G. Wallace 1840". From a sketch by A. R. Wallace"s brother William. 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).

NHM-WP06.008.021.[10]    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: 10. Proof illustration in black and white of a cave entrance, captioned in A. R. Wallace's hand "Porth y Ogof. Vale of Neath." 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).

NHM-WP06.008.021.[12]    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: 12. Proof illustration in black and white of a waterfall, with the printed caption "Llanhaidwr Waterfall." Page and vol. numbers added in A. R. Wallace's hand. 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).

NHM-WP06.008.021.[14]    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: 14. Proof illustration in black and white of a house, printed caption "'Nutwood Cottage,' Godalming." Page and vol. number added in A. R. Wallace's hand. 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).

NHM-WP06.008.021.[16]    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: 16. Proof illustration in black and white of a cottage and outbuildings, with a river in the foreground and wooded hills behind. Printed caption " My Birth-Place. Kensington Cottage, Usk." Page and vol. number added in A. R. Wallace's hand. 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).

NHM-WP06.008.021.[18]    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: 18. Proof illustration in black and white of two fish, the top image captioned in A. R. Wallace's hand "Cichlostoma severum. Fam Cichlidae. | (one third natural size)" and the bottom "Cynodon scombroides. Fam. Characinidae (one fourth natural size.)" 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).

NHM-WP15.003.005    Photo:    1905?   Portrait: Small faded sepia photo undated and without annotations, of an elderly man with short white beard, apparently William Mitten but possible A. R. Wallace, seated at a bench in a greenhouse, facing camera, seen through the open door of the building.

NHM-WP01.007    Note:    [1906]--1910   Letters from Sydney Skertchly 1889-1910: Skertchly was an English born Botanist and Geologist; arrived in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, from Hong Kong in 1891 and was Assistant Government Geologist for the Geological Survey of Queensland 1895-97. He lectured widely and wrote on natural history and science for the "Brisbane Courier". (Source: Bright Sparcs Website). Letters and notes to A. R. Wallace from S B J Skertchly comprising WP1/7/003 to WP1/7/009 Place: Australia

NHM-WP15.003    Printed:    1906--1907   Printed Obituaries and memoirs of William Mitten 1906 and 1907, by W B Hemsley, E M Holmes and W E Nicholson

NHM-WP01.007.009    Note:    1906?   "Dream Gardens " by "Duan Utan" (Sydney Skertchly?) from Journ. Hort. Aust. vol I, (1906) p. 50; Ms copy possibly made at a later date, in Skertchly's hand, seven folios; envelope annotated in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Skertchley's [sic] 'Dream Gardens' a delightful rhapsody, of memoirs of 'Gardens' in many lands." Place: Australia Notes: Sketch by "Duan Utan" was earlier assigned to series of works by writers other than A. R. Wallace and appended to this item 21 Jan 2004. PJL

NHM-WP01.001.119    Miscellaneous:    [1907]   Very small (8.5cm x 4 cm) scrap of tracing paper showing plan in pencil of W.C., landing and two bathrooms (of "Old Orchard", Alfred Russel Wallace's house at Broadstone, Dorset?); filed with and possibly originally enclosed in one of Alfred Russel Wallace's letters to his son William. Place: Dorset England Notes: Numbered [119] in pencil by P J Lucas, 2002. Rough edges. Records 118-123 inclusive placed together in melinex folder 18/11/02. RECORD MODIFIED 13/10/03

NHM-WP01.001.121    Miscellaneous:    [1907]   Small map (of land around "Old Orchard", Alfred Russel Wallace's house at Broadstone, Dorset?) in ink (19.5cm x 12.5cm) on tracing paper, with annotations in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand, showing the old orchard, house and old cottage, old road, proposed new road, road to Poole and boundaries with lengths marked in chains; filed with and possibly originally enclosed in one of Alfred Russel Wallace's letters to his son William. Place: Dorset England Notes: Numbered [121] in pencil by PJL 2002. Condition Fair but fragile because of nature of paper. Records 118-123 inclusive placed together in melinex folder 18/11/02.

NHM-WP01.001.123    Miscellaneous:    [1907]   Small map (probably of "Old Orchard", Alfred Russel Wallace's house at Broadstone, Dorset) 23.5 cm x 20 cm in ink on translucent waxed paper, annotated in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand, showing orchard, woods, houses, garden, road, line of water pipes and boundaries; filed with and possibly originally enclosed in one of Alfred Russel Wallace's letters to his son William. Place: Dorset England Notes: Numbered [123] in pencil by PJL 2002. Condition Good, but fragile because of nature of paper. Folded several times. Records 118-123 inclusive placed together in melinex folder 18/11/02.

NHM-WP01.001.138    Printed:    [1907]   Undated and untitled newspaper cutting approximately 7cm x 7cm with the by-line "X.Y.Z.", a joke about a Judge and a black thief, marked in the right hand margin with vertical pencil-lines. Probably an enclosure to his letter to William of 18 Mar 1909. Place: Dorset England Notes: Probably an enclosure to his letter of 18 Mar 1909 (see WP1/1/147) and placed within it. Annotated [WP1/1/138] [Encl to Mar 18, 1909?] in pencil by PJL, 2002

NHM-WP12.025    Note:    1907   Printed advertisement by Harper & Brothers for a book, "Worlds in the Making" by Svante Arrhenius, including quotations from the author's preface dated 1907; annotated in ink in AA. R. Wallace's hand. Notes: This was inserted in the centre of J C Browne's pamphlet "Materialism" when listed.

NHM-WP15.003.003    Printed:    1907   Obituary of William Mitten by E M Holmes, reprinted from The South-Eastern Naturalist 1907 in The Transactions of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies, 1907. Includes photographic portrait of Mitten standing, bearded, wearing a tweed suit and velvet smoking cap, holding a plant and magnifying glass, with a rose hedge in the background. (Copy 2 of 2)

NHM-WP01.001.141    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace William Greenell, Wallace Violet,  1908   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his son William, from Broadstone, Dorset, Monday (?1908) re proposed sale by Lord Wimborne of land surrounding A. R. Wallace's house and possible multiplicity of buildings and people, proposal that the family combine to buy extra land near house. Place: Dorset England Notes: Annotated in pencil in Mrs Richard Wallace's hand: "122B?"

NHM-WP07.102    Note:    1908--1909   "The Remedy for Unemployment" by A. R. Wallace, papers comprising proof pp [1] -22 of part 1 and two letters to him re the paper 1908-1909, with annotated envelope, and one copy of each of the numbers of the journal Socialist Review June and July 1908 containing parts 1 and 2 of the article.

NHM-WP08.003.002    Note:    1908--1908   Two folios of ms notes by A. R. Wallace, one headed "Further errors to be corrected in map of Equatorl. S. America" and one headed "Corrections on map of Rio Pacimoni". Undated (1908?) Place: South America Notes: Spruce, Richard, ed. A. R. Wallace, (1908) Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes, vol. 1, facing p. 448, map of the River Pacimoni.The corrections have been made in the publication. The notes were enclosed in a small envelope labelled in A. R. Wallace's? hand "A few letters of 'Spruce' | Some written some copied"; see separate record.

NHM-WP08.003.006    Draft:    1908--1908   Corrected page proofs all headed "Historical account of the Herbarium", 2 folios, pp 19-20 and 61-62, both quoting letters by Richard Spruce. From Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes by Richard Spruce (ed.and condensed by A. R. Wallace Dec. 1908)

NHM-WP11.001.[01]    Note:    1908--1909   Biographical notes on Charles Darwin, ms in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand, headed "1st Draft | Charles Darwin …", 17 folios lined paper, numbered [1]-7 and 10-19 (i.e. ff. 8 and 9 apparently missing) Notes: Two copies of the cutting from the Daily Mail, filed in another wallet with unrelated papers, have been added to this file. Very worn

NHM-WP11.001.[03]    Note:    1908--1909   "Today's Centenaries | Charles Darwin" by A. R. Wallace, a version of the Ms above; press cutting from "The Daily Mail" 12 Feb 1909; another copy

NHM-WP11.001.[05]    Note:    1908--1909   Envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace, postmarked 17 Sep 1908, annotated on the back in ink and blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's (and WGW's?) hand "Appreciation of Darwin | 1st Draft : Written for 'Daily Mail' - too long. | Cuttings &c Darwinism" containing the mss and some of the press cuttings above when listed.