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NHM-WP12.006
Note:
1871--1872?
Unpublished poem by Grant Allen, "Magdalen Towers" dated Oct 20 no year; Ms [copy? In A. R. Wallace's hand?] with corrections; about ten folios of squared paper approx 17.5 cm x 11 cm. Notes: Allen studied at Oxford 1871-[72?] but this may have been written much later. Last date based on an entry in the Grant Allen website checklist; "Magdalen Tower. [Pamphlet]. [London: [no publisher], [1894?]"
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NHM-WP13.001.010
Printed:
1871?--1871?
Printed pamphlet, undated, titled "The Universal Challenge to Unnatural Science! Twenty Reasons against Newtonianism with Geographical Proofs that the earth is an extended plane. By Ebenezer Breach, natural astronomer and poet . . ." 16 pages. The cover includes review quotes including one by "S.L.H." which is annotated with an asterisk and a note in A. R. Wallace's? hand "This was written as a joke". Notes: Dated on the basis that the wager of the curvature of the earth occurred in 1870. Other possibilities include 1885 or 1886, when John Hampden was acting against A. R. Wallace. RECORD MODIFIED 24/7/03 CLASS TITLE
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NHM-WP01.003.081
Correspondence:
Sims Frances née Wallace, Wilson Mrs née Greenell, Sims Thomas, Hatch Phoebe, Montgomery RobertHatch Phoebe, Montgomery Robert
[1872--1874]
Envelope containing a letter and ms notes. The envelope is annotated (by A. R. Wallace?) in ink "letter with no place, or date, or name | one description of wonderful caverns - Old Hatch mentioned " and in pencil beneath "old" deleted: " Phoebe Hatch aet 15!". Contents: 1: letter on mourning paper, signed "X", from Derwent Villa, Sydenham Road North, (Cheltenham?) May, (no day or year date), to Mrs Sims (A. R. Wallace's sister Fanny), thanking her for her kind letter and likenesses of A. R. Wallace and aunt (Wilson?); describing the writer's step-daughter Mrs York and her children and reminiscing about childhood times at Dulwich. Annotated in pencil (by A. R. Wallace?) "?1872-74". 2: One folio folded headed "My description continued", apparently part of a letter, in blue ink in an unknown hand, describing (limestone?) caves with underground lakes visited by the writer and old Mr Hatch; mentioning Hatch's daughter Phoebe, Mr Sims and Mrs Cole. 3: Ms in black ink in an unknown hand, one folded folio headed "Robert Montgomery" on the right and "1842" on the other, with notes on the life and poetry of Robert Montgomery and, under "1842", the role of major poets including Wordsworth in procuring funding to build a church (near Cardiff Castle?). Place: Cardiff Wales Cheltenham Gloucestershire En
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NHM-WP06.001
Note:
1872--unknown
Paper(s) relating to Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1869, "The Malay Archipelago; The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel With Studies of Man and Nature". 2 volumes. Macmillan & Co., London, 9 March 1869 and subsequent editions/reprints.
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NHM-WP07.041.[02]
Draft:
1872
Printed proof sheets corrected in A. R. Wallace's hand of a review by him of C R Bree, "An Exposition of Fallacies in the Hypothesis of Mr. Darwin" (London 1872), pasted onto one side of each of six folios of red-lined blue paper, no publication title given ("Nature" 6, July 1872? -See Shermer p. 364)
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NHM-WP03.003
Notebook:
[1873]--[1913]
Small lined and ruled notebook with "Addresses" faintly visible on front cover and the remains of a brass clasp on back and front boards; containing very approximately personal and corporate names and addresses in A. R. Wallace's hand, with a few printed address lists and labels pasted onto some pages and onto the inside front cover, and lists of people to whom various A. R. Wallace publications or letters were sent (detailed below).
Addresses are in alphabetical order by name but divided into categories, (by year?) so that there is more than one section A-Z.
Addresses pasted in include a list in newsprint of newspaper offices in London, on the flyleaf underneath a list in A. R. Wallace's hand headed "Paintings". Twelve pages at the back of the book contain gardening notes written upside down relative to the front pages and beginning on the last page of the book. These are a calendar of flowering plants at the Dell, April-May 1873 and 1875, (143-141) list of Cape (South African) heaths each with botanical name, description and time of flowering, (pp. 139-131) and a diagram of plantings c. 1889-1890 (p. 130).
A loose business card from Parsons & Hayter, Builders and Estate Agents of Swanage and Wareham, is enclosed between pp 63 and 64.
The notebook is approximately 16cm x 9cm, approximately 120 pages, of which 12 between the address and gardening notes section are blank.
Notes which are not, or not simply, address lists are: p. 19: Names: Dec 1879, written to about result of Epping Forest Competition. p. 20: Names: To send nationalisation circular (list undated) pp. 39-40: Names: Land Nationalisation bound and paper copies sent to.(At the top of p. 40 is a note of "Diagrams on black calico by Geo. A. Rea [sic]") p. 41: includes a list of Guildford newspapers. p. 42: includes a list of gardeners pp. 43-44: Probable income during 1886-7-8,and Fixed outgoings p.45: Names: Large photos (Portrait?) sent to. pp. 46-47: American addresses (other American addresses occur in the alphabetical sections) p. 48: Miscellaneous U. K names and addresses not in alphabetical order, including V.C. special committee of London Society for the abolition of vaccination. pp. 49-50: Names: Darwinism sent to p. 50; Names: L. N. (Land Nationalisation) Address (sent to?) p. 54: Names: "Expressiveness of Speech", copies sent to p. 55: Names: "Gorge of the Aar", sent to p. 76: includes names: Copies of L.N. address 1895 "Unemployed" sent to p. 79: includes names: Copies new edition of "Island Life" July 1902 sent to p. 106: includes names: Copies of "Is Mars Habitable" sent to p. 108: Names: "Is it peace or war" copies of Public Opinion Aug 14, 1908 sent to Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 Notes: I have numbered the pages in pencil in square brackets from [1] to [143] beginning with the inside front flyleaf . P J Lucas Feb 2003.
5. Extremely poor condition, broken back, boards loose, flyleaf and some pages at front loose. This is likely to be a very important source of information and conservation should be high priority. PJL 2003
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NHM-WP07.043
Printed:
[1873--1911]
Mss and print on ethical issues c. 1873-1911 in paper cover labelled in WGW's? A. R. Wallace's? hand "Letters on Ethical Questions", comprising: WP7/43.01 to 06. Notes: Cover made from blue paper blank on one side and red-lined on the other with printed divisions into two geographical regions (Australian and Indian) further divided into island groups (page of a collection register?). Two items assumed to be misfiled were removed and relocated: letter to Daily News re flying machines in war (see papers on this specific topic in WP ) and reprint The Palaearctic and Nearctic . . . Mammalia and Birds" (see WP7/72 ). It is possible some or all of the papers above are not those originally in the titled cover, which may have been created by WGW, as not all are letters, but all more or less fit the category.
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NHM-WP07.043.[01]
Printed:
1873
Press cutting, letter to the Editor, "Daily News" headed "The evils of the drink traffic and their remedy" annotated at the top in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand "?date 1873?" and "A.R.W."
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NHM-WP12.007
Printed:
1873--1874
"Mind and the Science of Energy" reprint or proof from British Quarterly Review, 1874, (by W B Carpenter?) and "The Psychology of Belief", reprint of a lecture by W B Carpenter, 1873, both sewn into a paper cover labelled in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Carpenter (W.B.)" and titles.
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NHM-WP17.005
Photo:
1873--1884
Folder containing 22 printed portraits of scientists, published by Macmillan and Co., London and issued by "Nature" to subscribers 1873-1884. Most engraved by C H Jeens, some by G J Stodart, most from photographs; showing head and shoulders, full face or 3/4 profile except in the case of Charles Darwin, who is shown in profile facing towards the viewer's right; Wallace's portrait is not included.
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NHM-WP06.006.007
Photo:
[1874--1899]
2 photos and 12 annotated proof sheets? of black and white photographic and woodcut or metal engraved images from approx. 8.5 cm x 7.5 cm to 10 cm x 15.5 cm in size illustrating 'New Guinea and its Inhabitants', in A. R. Wallace, "Studies Scientific and Social", (London 1900) vol. 1, Ch. XX, pp. 416-460, figs 59-71; most annotated back and front in lead pencil and/or ink in A. R. Wallace's and other? hands, some with the figure number as finally published in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand; comprising (fig. numbers and attributions as given in the publication): 1. Proof: Cuscus orientalis, engraving or woodcut, fig. 59, attributed Zoological Society 2. Proof: Dactylopsila trivirigata (striped possum); sheet stamped on the back "Richard Clay & Sons, Limited. Bread Street Hill E.C. 27 Nov. 1899"; engraving or woodcut, fig. 60, attributed Semon 3. Proof: Distoechurus pinnatus ( feather-tailed possum) engraving or woodcut, fig. 61, attributed Semon 4. Proof: Tree Kangaroo and New Guinea Birds, engraving or woodcut, fig. 62, from A. R. Wallace's "Geographical Distribution of Animals" 5. Proof: King Charles' Bird of Paradise, Parotia Carolae, engraving or woodcut, fig. 63, attributed A B Meyer 6. Proof: Fern-bearing Bird of paradise, Pteridophora alberti, engraving or woodcut, fig. 64, attributed A B Meye 7. Proof: Rothschild's Bird of Paradise, Astrapia splendidissima, engraving or woodcut, fig. 65 attributed Sharpe 8. Proof: Prince Rupert's Bird of Paradise, Paradisornis rudolphi, engraving or woodcut, fig. 66 attributed Sharpe 9. Proof: Papuans, South-West New Guinea, photographic image showing 4 Papuan men on a rocky beach, three sitting and one standing, facing camera; annotations in lead and blue pencil include "68" and "67 not got proof"; fig. 68, attributed Admiral Maclear. 10. Proof: Papuan of New Hebrides, photographic image showing head and naked torso of a bearded Papuan man standing against a tree trunk looking to the viewer's left, fig. 69, unattributed. 11. Proof: Native of Api, New Hebrides, oval photographic image showing to the waist a short-haired beardless man in profile looking to the viewer's right, wearing a patterned shirt and seated in a wooden chair; "Toby" can be seen in white on the print. Fig. 70, undated (1874?) attributed Challenger expedition. 12.Photograph, sepia oval print on rectangular paper, showing to the waist a short-haired beardless man in profile looking to the viewer's right, wearing a patterned shirt and seated in a wooden chair; image approx 18 cm x 13.5 cm with "Gov. Copyt." and " 'Toby' Native of Api 295 J.H." in white letters on the bottom edge of the print; the "N" in "Native" is reversed. Undated (1874?); reproduced as Fig 70. 13. Proof: Natives of Timor, photographic image showing 3 young men wearing loose robes and head-dresses, two carrying long bamboo? pipes on which one is leaning his hands and chin; a building wall and barred window is behind them. Fig 71, "from a photograph" but undated and unattributed. 14. Photograph, faded sepia, approx. 9.5 cm x 12.5 cm mounted on slightly larger card, showing 3 young men wearing loose robes and head-dresses, two carrying long bamboo? pipes on which one is leaning his hands and chin; a building wall and barred window is behind them; annotated in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Natives of Timor | 8813 | scale | 1/1", cropping line in pencil on the left, numbered in pencil on the back "16514". Notes: A version of "New Guinea and its Inhabitants" was first published in "Contemporary Review", Feb 1879. Most proofs are very dirty with inky fingerprints; photograph of Timor natives is faded and mount dirty and foxed.
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NHM-WP07.042.[02]
Printed:
1874
Offprint or proof of Notices of Books from an unnamed journal (Spectator 47: 535-536 (25 April 1874: no. 2391: see Smith S 242) vol. IV, N.S., Apr 1874, pp 229- 232, containing an anonymous review of George St. Clair, "Darwinism and Design; or Creation by Evolution" (London 1873) annotated on first page in WGW's? hand in pencil "Review by A.R.W." 2 ff.
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NHM-WP07.042.[03]
Draft:
1874
Proof? Of a review by A. R. Wallace of "A Phrenologist among the Todas…" by William Marshall (London 1873), in "Notices of Books", Apr 1874, Journal unknown, pp 241-246; 3 ff. (Smith S234 refers to a review entitled "A Primeval Race" in Athenaeum no. 2403: 624-625 (15 Nov. 1873) of which this may be a reprint). Notes: The review of Marshall's "… among the Todas" was in another wallet in this box, see old ref WP4/2. Transferred earlier to WP7.
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Snumberforthcoming
Periodical contribution:
Wallace, A.R. 1874. On the rhinoceros of Borneo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874 November 3: 498-499.
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WSPEC351.1
Book:
Sharpe, R.Bowdler. 1874. Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum, vol. 1: Accipitres or diurnal birds of prey. London: Trustees of the British Museum.
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NHM-WP12.040.[2]
Note:
1874?--1885?
Torn and brittle remains of an envelope on top annotated in WGW's?, hand include "Mss by Prof ? on Island of Juan Fernandez". Notes: First date based on covering dates of the HMS "Challenger" scientific expedition 1872-1876. Possibly a copy of part of the Report of the Challenger Expedition IV. Botany.Vol. 1, Part III. - Botany of Juan Fernandez, south-eastern Moluccas, and the Admiralty Islands by W. B. Hemsley (London 1885)
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NHM-WP12.040.[1]
Note:
1874?--1885?
Ms in an unknown hand headed "Juan Fernandez" apparently describing the flora of the Island; in ink on blue lined paper, 4 folios, 7pp, annotated above title in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "By Prof [blank] of the Challenger"
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NHM-WP12.008
Note:
1875
Poem; copy in A. R. Wallace's hand of four verses from "Jonas Fisher" (by James Carnegie 1875) on industrialism, workers and manufacturer's greed.
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