NHM-WP01.002.003    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace William Greenell, Crump Mr?  1889.10.12   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 12 Oct 1889 re A. R. Wallace's forthcoming lecture in Liverpool; gardening; her brother William's affairs. Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.006    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Huggins Mr?, Lodge Prof  [1890].02.01   Partial TS transcription of a letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 1 Feb 1890, headed "A. R. Wallace to VIW" re house renovation; family affairs. Unsigned. The original letter is dated 1 Feb 1890 but annotated in pencil in an unknown hand "91!" See WP1/2/7. Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.008    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet  1890.02.10   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 10 Feb 1890 re Violet's birthday; A. R. Wallace's lecture tour; A. R. Wallace to give evidence before a Royal Commission (on vaccination); local burglary; visitors. Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.010    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace William Greenell, Wallace Eliza, Mennel Mrs  1890.03.23   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 23 Mar 1890 re Violet's health and expenses; family visitors. Place: Croydon Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.012    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Mitten Rose, Coowara Lady, Luis Mrs, Walker Mr, Geikie Sir Archibald, Smith Sidney  1890.06.24   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 24 Jun 1890 re family members; Nutwood Cottage; visitors; Bull's Exhibition of Orchids at Chelsea. Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.014    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet  1890.11.22   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 22 Nov 1890 re award to A. R. Wallace of Royal Society medal; psychical research, article in "Arena"; visits to neighbours; books; the French revolution. Place: Dorset England Notes: Annotated in pencil in an unknown hand "Medal Royal Society"

NHM-WP01.002.018    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Lund Mrs, ? Florence Miss?  1891.01.02   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 7 Jan 1891, re confusion over correspondence with Mrs Lund; Violet's "adventure" on journey to Liverpool (train de-railed?); enclosed letter from Croydon (not present). Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.020    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace William Greenell, Nichols ?  1891.03.26   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 26 Mar 1891, re Violet's expenses; alterations to house; new neighbours the Nichols. Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.024    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Michaelis Madame, Besant Annie née Morris  1892.02.10   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 10 Feb 1892 re sending Malay beetles to Violet; Madame's (Madame Michaelis) opinion of A. R. Wallace's article; lecture by Mrs Besant; A. R. Wallace's health. Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.026    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Sowerby William, Geikie Sir Archibald  1892.05.05   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 5 May 1892 re tickets for Zoo; servants; socialism; Examiners meeting; Land Nationalisation meeting; horticultural exhibitions. Place: Dorset England Notes: Annotated in an unknown hand "A good ending".

NHM-WP01.002.028    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Hughes Mr, Marshall J W, Macdonald Miss, Spencer Herbert  1892.06.09   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 9 Jun 1892 re growing grape-vines; marking exam papers, including examples of some answers; A. R. Wallace's address to Land Nationalisation meeting; Nutwood cottage garden. Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.030    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Burdekin Mr, Fisher Arabella Burton (née Buckley), Bede  1892.08.21   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 21 Aug 1892 re excursion to Kimmeredge Bay; Venerable Bede; payment from the "Nineteenth Century" (magazine). Place: Corfe Castle Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.032    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace William Greenell, Higgins Henry Hugh  1893.06.02   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 2 Jun 1893 re marking of exams; upcoming holidays; attempts to let the house; discovery of missing parcel of books; anatomy of flowers, including an ink sketch of a flower section with parts labelled; Violet's career. Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.034    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace William Greenell, Evans Mr, Hope Mrs, Lund Mr, Lees? Miss, Iselin Mrs, ? Winifred, Harris Frank  1893.07.02   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 2 Jul 1893 re attempts to let house; article on House of Lords sent to Harris; letter from her brother William. Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.036    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Iselin Mrs, Iselin? Henry, Higgins Henry Hugh  1893.07.16   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from 18 Stanger Street, Keswick 16 Jul 1893 re train journey from Dorset; description of Dove Dale and surrounding area; costs of accommodation; tourists; death of "H.H.H." (Henry Higgins). Place: Cumbria England

NHM-WP01.002.038    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Harris Frank  1893.10.01   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 1 Oct 1893 re Violet's career; ferns from Cumbria; house repairs; work on second paper on the geology of the Lake District for the "Fortnightly". Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.040    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Reid Clement, Hall Captain Marshall-, Stevenson Robert Louis Balfour, Haggard Henry Rider, Knowles Mr, Sharpe J W, Allman Dr, Usherwood  1893.10.22   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 22 Oct 1893 re Geological Survey; books read; Psychical Science Congress; delayed publication of article in the "Nineteenth Century"; Sharpe suggests article on House of Lords suitable for "The Speaker"; articles on the glacial epoch and the formation of lakes in the "Fortnightly"; garden plants; building of a pond. Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.042    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Herdman Sir William Abbott, ? Eleanor  1893.11.08   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 8 Nov 1893 re Violet's visits to a club for working girls; Liverpool? Museum; advice on bookshelves with ink sketch plan; Christmas plans and gifts. Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.044    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Tooley Mrs, Woodhull Mrs, ? Eleanor  1893.12.16   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 16 Dec 1893 re journalist's interview; articles on the unemployed and House of Lords, "Daily Chronicle"; "Contemporary Review"; storm damage to local houses and shipping; plans for Christmas; night skies. Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.046    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Myers F W H, Sidgwick Henry, Lund Mr, Lund Miss, Burton Sir Richard Francis, Burton Lady Isabel  1894.03.11   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 11 Mar 1894 re paper read at Cambridge University Natural Science Club conversazione, declines honorary degree; Violet's proposed Alpine trip; the Burton family; Violet's career; progress of "Social Economy" article for book on new reforms; local lecture on Oberammergau passion play. Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.048    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Myers F W H, Myers Mrs, Sidgwick Henry, Sidgwick Eleanor Mildred,  1894.03.30   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 30 Mar 1894 re visit to Cambridge; Mrs Myer's photography and her son's ill health; "Merrie England"; daffodils at Lytchett. Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.050    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Mitten William, Mitten Flora, Mitten Bessie, Harris Frank, Harrison Miss, Fisher Arabella Burton (née Buckley)  1894.06.23   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 23 Jun 1894 re Mrs Fisher; geological excursions with grandpa (William Mitten) to Bournemouth and Swanage; chess meetings; the "Clarion"; proposed visits by aunts Flora and Bessie (Mitten) and two American geologists; proposed visit to Devonshire for ferns; writing for Harris; Violet's expenses. Place: Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.052    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace William Greenell, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Reid Clement  1894.07.14   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 14 Jul 1894, re her proposed tour to Switzerland and Italy with Madame Lund's party, sending £10 towards expenses; arrangement for meeting her brother William and visiting Parkstone; description of A. R. Wallace's and Ma's (Annie Wallace) ten days in Devon, wildflowers and ferns at Bolt Head, Salcombe and Brent; blue poppies and pink waterlily in flower in garden; two nearby houses including Mr Clement Reid's lodgings destroyed by fire. Place: Devonshire Dorset England Italy Switzerland

NHM-WP01.002.054    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, Wallace Annie née Mitten, Heaton ? Miss, Reid Clement  1894.10.29   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 29 Oct 1894 re recovery from damage to his eyesight, unable to read or write for previous month; Ma (Annie Wallace) reading papers to him, learning Poe's "Farewell to Earth" by heart to pass the time; visit of Miss Heaton from Natal with a trap-door spider for Violet, can supply a chameleon if wanted; "Clementina" (Clement Reid?) has left for Corfe; rearrangement of furniture in study (sketch plan included). Place: Africa Dorset England

NHM-WP01.002.056    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel, Wallace Violet, ? Eleanor?, Turner ?  1894.11.25   Letter from A. R. Wallace to his daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 25 Nov 1894, re recovery of his eyesight, one still inflamed, lost opportunity to view Mars with his telescope, accumulation of reading, writing and chess playing; discovery of a doctor (Turner) at Poole, who is a fellow orchid enthusiast; request for any spare plants if Violet should visit (orchid house) at Liverpool; purchase of educational books for her; unsuitability of Parkstone house for children, but Eleanor and her child may visit; sending two annotated numbers of the "Vaccination Enquirer", impossibility of trusting doctors or officials on the subject. Place: Dorset England Notes: Annotated in pencil on top of first page in an unknown hand "orchid good".