Wallace Online: Search Results

1701.

NHM-WP12.038 Note: undated "The Waste of Beauty | Written after reading "… Malay Archipelago", undated poem signed J W Gough, Ms in ink on 1 folded folio (3 pp) of lined paper, annotated in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand on the title page "Ideas and sentiments good - | verse but so-so | A.R.W." over "Not bad on the whole" in pencil in his? or WGW's? hand. Notes: A. R. Wallace's "Malay Archipelago" was first published in 1869 but frequently reprinted; the date of the poem could be anywhere between 1869 and A. R. Wallace's year of death, 1913.

1702.

NHM-WP12.039 Note: undated Brown envelope labelled in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Sundry Articles"; originally containing printed papers by authors other than A. R. Wallace, together with proofs of appendix of "Man's Place in the Universe", now relocated. Notes: Kept because of label as the hand is probably though not certainly A. R. Wallace's.

1703.

NHM-WP14.001.007 Note: undated Extract from the diary of John Evelyn for 27 Jan 1689 from an unnamed newspaper; undated; on the subject of an infant prodigy, the son of Dr. Clench, annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand in ink "Probably equalled by J.S. Mill at same age." Notes: In a envelope addressed to Richard Wallace, postmarked 1996, labelled "Newspaper cuttings | Various" comprising press cuttings, corrected proofs, book reviews and other papers, when listed.

1704.

NHM-WP14.002.017 Note: undated The cutting formerly in this position has been transferred to WP14/1

1705.

NHM-WP15.004.002 Correspondence: Mitten William, Booker J undated Postcard; undated black and white /sepia photo showing a divided driveway and iron barred gate with a distant view of wooded fields; captioned in white "Cowdray. Hurstpierpoint | J. Booker Series"; possibly view from or of the grounds of Cowdray House, the country seat of Lord Cowdray; there is no writing on the reverse. Place: Hurstpierpoint West Sussex Notes: Placed in this series because of the address, presumably near the Mitten house; with a small collection of apparently unrelated photos and postcards of varying dates, (all old ref WP2/51) when listed.

1706.

NHM-Ms_140a-e Note: undated Miscellaneous correspondence, sketches etc. (various dates) boxed

1707.

NHM-WP17.005.023 Photo: undated Brown paper folder labelled in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? or his son William's? hand "Nature Portraits" and annotated in ink at right angles in an unknown hand "By Passenger Train | Carriage Paid". This folder enclosed the 22 portraits of scientists issued by "Nature" 18873-1884, WP17/5/1-22 Notes: Dirty and acidic. Put into a melinex sleeve to protect the top and bottom prints and placed in the acid-free envelope with them. END LIST WP/2/8

1708.

NHM-WP17.008.001 Photo: undated Sepia photographic print, undated, approximately 10 cm x 8 cm, apparently a photograph of another photograph hanging or lying on a darker surface, showing a large area of fallen or cut logs (or petrified forest?) without foliage, with rolling lightly wooded hills in the background. Annotated on the back in pencil in an unknown hand "15". Part of a small paper sticker is attached to the top right corner of the print. Photographer unknown. Notes: In envelope marked "Geological & Glacial | Photos - | Ananda C. Swamy. | Aarschlucht" when listed.

1709.

NHM-WP17.008.011 Photo: undated Buff envelope approximately 13 cm X 10 cm labelled in pencil, possibly in two different hands, "Geological & Glacial | Photos - | Ananda C. Swamy. | Aarschlucht." The words "Photos - Ananda C Swamy. | Aarschlucht." are almost certainly in A. R. Wallace's hand, "Geological & Glacial" may be in another hand (WGW's?) or added at a later date. When listed this envelope contained ten small undated photographic prints, nine showing geological features, probably glacial, and one apparently showing a devastated forest of tree stumps, possibly after a fire or tornado, though it may be a view of a petrified forest. Two may be of Aarschlucht (a narrow glacial gorge with a lake at the bottom in Aar, Switzerland) but are not labelled and do not show a lake. There is no photograph of or obviously by, Ananda Coomaraswamy. The prints have been listed separately as WP17/8/1-10

1710.

NHM-WP17.009 Printed: undated Printed cartoon captioned "The meeting of the Zoological Society, Hanover Square. (After a drawing by Harry Furniss. By Permission of the Proprietors of 'Punch')"; undated, from an unnamed publication, caricaturing various men including Richard Owen and W H Flower? Notes: Dates based on when Harry Furniss began working for "Punch" (the 1880's) and the date of publication of Scherren, Henry. 1905. "The Zoological Society of London: A Sketch of Its Foundation ...", an illustration from which is on the back of the cartoon. Found when listed in a Large envelope labelled in Richard W's? hand "Illustrations of Palm trees" containing printed illustrations of palm trees and an undated and unnamed watercolour of azaleas.

1711.

NHM-WP17.010 Note: undated A small watercolour of a spray of three pink and one white azalea? flowers with foliage, undated and unsigned, approx 16cm square, on translucent brown paper. Notes: Found when listed in a Large envelope labelled in Richard W's? hand "Illustrations of Palm trees" containing printed illustrations of palm trees and a cartoon depicting a zoological society meeting (WP17/9)

1712.

NHM-WP17.015 Note: undated Route map of the British Islands, approximately 24 cm x 18 cm on one sheet of paper approximately 23 cm x 29 cm. Printed by Bean & Sons, Leeds. Undated. Black and white outline, with areas hand-coloured in pink (by A. R. Wallace?). Directional arrows and border of coloured area pencilled in and annotations in pencil including "Direction of ice movement" in A. R. Wallace's hand. Notes: In envelope labelled "Photos &c for Studies" (i.e. "Studies Scientific and Social") when listed. The image is not reproduced there though it may be related to two articles "The Ice Age and it's Work..." first published in "Fortnightly Review" in November and December 1893, reprinted in "Studies..."

1713.

NHM-WP18.002 Note: undated "Systematic Index", 2 folios, pp. [xii] - xvi] of an undated, untitled printed index to bird species, with annotations and deletions in A. R. Wallace's? hand, possibly final proofs from a book.

1714.

NHM-WP18.003.[1] Note: undated Envelope annotated in an unknown hand in ink " File | Special letter from late Mr Sims | not to be acknowledged"

1715.

NHM-WP18.005 Note: undated Paper label in ink in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Scientific | A"

1716.

NHM-WP18.009 Correspondence: Wallace John undated Empty brown envelope labelled in pencil in an unknown hand "John Wallace's letter to Mr W. | Very interesting a/c of a 'fly' dragging off a large spider | Aug 1854". (This refers to John Wallace to A. R. Wallace, from Columbia 28 Aug 1854. See WP1/3/31) Notes: Formerly in Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893: WP1/3. Not entered in contents list.

1717.

NHM-WP18.010 Note: undated Otherwise blank sheet apparently from a journal annotated/labelled in A. R. Wallace's hand "Extracts &c America"

1718.

NHM-WP18.011 Note: undated Label "Wallace | Evolution &c" in ink in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's?hand, on the blank side of a postcard printed with the address of Edward Hamer & Co, Welsh Mutton purveyors, Llanidloes. Notes: Folded; apparently used as a file label

1719.

NHM-WP18.018 Correspondence: Casey? A Bertie Miss undated Empty envelope addressed in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand to Miss A. Bertie [C] Casey. Lantosca, Madeira Road Upr. Parkstone Dorset , stamped, postmark illegible, stamp on back flap "Park's Press Photography Agency Ltd., 80 Fleet Street London EC"; Paper label on front, crossed out, of W. A. Sims & co, Process engraving, 98 Fleet St. Notes: See unidentified poem on paper headed "Lantosca", WP18/19

1720.

NHM-WP18.028 Note: undated Brown cardboard box approximately 25.5 cm x 18 cm x 5.5 cm, in the form of a book, titled "Letters" on spine, with marbling on 3 edges. Labelled inside lid "No. 1 large 8vo Stone's Patent Box for the safe & Orderly Keeping of all Letters, Papers and Documents . . ." . The label is partly covered by a modern Post-It note with a rough and incomplete list in Richard Wallace's hand (c. 2000?) of some of the letters which it contained when delivered to the Museum. The contents have now been transferred to a number of more appropriate series.

1721.

NHM-WP18.031 Note: undated Nine undated and unlabelled "Stone's Universal" brand document wallets with tape ties, in which some of the A. R. Wallace family papers were stored on arrival at the NHM and before listing. Pencilled notes and temporary reference numbers in square brackets on the wallets were added by P J Lucas during sorting and listing. The wallets appear old and may have been used by A. R. Wallace himself at some time, but there is no direct evidence that he did.