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BL-Add.Mss46415-46417
Draft:
1885--1888
Autograph draft for "Darwinism" (1889). Vols. II-IV (ff. 279, 269, 316). 'Darwinism', published April 1889. According to a note on 46415, f. 1, the work was written between the end of 1885 and November 1888. Autograph, apparently sent to the printer although some alterations and additions are found in the printed text. Preface, index, etc., wanting. Paginated first by Wallace in chapters, excluding a flyleaf to each chapter and then by the printer in two series, viz.: 46415, f. 1- 46417, f. 66, 1- 602, and 46417, ff. 65-316, 1-245.
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NHM-WP13.001.009
Printed:
1885--1885
Printed announcement by John Hampden, of Balham, Surrey, of default by A R Wallace of a debt of honour. Three spaces left for the insertion of the name of the defaulter have been filled in (John Hampden's) hand with the name "A R Wallace", "A.R.W" and "A Wallace". Part of the text has been underlined and annotated in the margin in (A. R. Wallace's?) hand "? | Proofs". Place: London England Norfolk
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NHM-WP13.001.013
Printed:
1885
Printed pamphlet (part?), undated, on the Flat Earth wager, 1 f headed on one side "The Most Startling Topic of the Day!" and on the other "The Following is addressed to a Member of the Royal Geographical Society … What is a Swindler?…" Notes: Formerly in unlabelled wallet of miscellaneous unrelated papers
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NHM-WP14.002.023
Note:
1885--1887
Small envelope labelled in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Newspaper cuttings | American", when listed containing 3 press cuttings and one proof? press report; separately recorded: see WP14/2/24-27 Place: Canada USA Notes: When listed filed in box 2 with papers in a envelope addressed to Richard Wallace, postmarked 1996, labelled "Newspaper cuttings | Various" comprising press cuttings, corrected proofs, book reviews and print.
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| 2706. |
NHM-WP17.006
Photo:
1885--1890
"The Arena Gallery of Eminent Thinkers"; pale blue (grey on with dirt on the outside but true colour shows on the folds) embossed paper folder so titled in decorative print (possibly by hand) with black ribbon tie, enclosing 40 loose leafed printed portrait photographs of eminent people with their autographs, including A. R. Wallace; with contents page listing portraits by name and number within the categories Poets, Clergymen, Women, Young American Writers, Men of Letters and Scientists and Philosophers, published by the Arena Publishing Co, Boston, Mass. (USA), undated; all apparently present but not in numerical order; portrait of A. R. Wallace aged about 60 is on top followed by Charles Darwin in old age. Notes: Date based on dates of some of the "Young American Writers", born c, 1860s and apparently aged mid-twenties or thirties in portraits, and apparent age of A. R. Wallace in portrait.
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| 2711. |
WSPEC351.10
Book:
Sharpe, R.Bowdler. 1885. Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum, vol. 10: Passeriformes Fringilliformes Part I. London: Trustees of the British Museum.
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| 2712. |
BL-Add.Mss46414
Draft:
1886
Autograph draft for "Bad Times" (1886). Vol. I (ff. 280). 'Bad Times', published 1886, a rewritten version of an essay submitted by Wallace for a prize of 100 gns. offered in 1885 by Messrs. Pears for the best essay on 'The Present Depression of Trade'; viz.:- (1) Pag
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NHM-WP01.005
Correspondence:
Wallace Alfred Russel
1886--1887
Letters from the USA and Canada: 37 letters and one postscript from A. R. Wallace to his wife Annie, children William and Violet, father-in-law William Mitten and sister Fanny (Mrs Sims) from the USA, 1886-1887, some with original envelopes, one with enclosed press cuttings; sketch map of Niagara Falls probably an enclosure to a letter to Violet; 5 small envelopes of press cuttings from American and Canadian Newspapers, and one rough note. Many letters and press cuttings contain passages underlined or marked in red or blue pencil. Place: USA Canada Notes: Pieces were out of date sequence but with no obvious logical arrangement and have been placed in date order. Letters have been briefly listed but NOT yet all read for content . The letters were wrapped in part of a 1916 envelope addressed to WGW and a torn sheet of paper partly printed with local council minutes, both annotated; these have been transferred to more appropriate series. See also WP14/2, press cuttings from North American papers.
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NHM-WP06.006.009
Photo:
1886--1900
Sketches and proof sheets of images illustrating native American tools and implements in 'American Museums', in A. R. Wallace, "Studies Scientific and Social", (London 1900) vol. 2, Ch. 2; and other sketches and notes relating to America and American Museums comprising: 1-7: Original ink sketches of Indian arrowheads, pottery & other implements from the Smithsonian Museum, in ink on small squared paper sheets, marked up in blue pencil and annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand; each pasted inside a folded piece of blue-green letter paper, some with notes in his hand on the inside, numbered on the outside in blue, possibly in WGW's hand, numbers 1-7; sheets in numbers 1 and 7 have sketches on both sides. When listed enclosed in small buff envelope labelled in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Notes on sketches of H[unt] [Hunt] implements" (item 19 below). Most reproduced as figs 5-8 and 10-24 in vol 2, Ch. 2, pp. 41-52.; sketches and equivalent figures in the chapter as below: Folder 1 - fig. 7 Folder 2 - figs 5, 6, 8 and 10 Folder 3 - figs 13, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Folder 4 - fig. 12 Folder 5 - figs 11 and 14 Folder 6 - figs 19, 21 and 23 Folder 7 - figs 20, 22 and 24 ( 24 on back of sheet). 8. Proof illustration approximately 11.5 cm x 9.5 cm showing thirteen prehistoric implements (from drawings made by A. R. Wallace? at the National Museum, Washington) including one serrated obsidian spearhead labelled "California III". Annotated at the bottom in pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand "cf letters on cells" crossed through. Stamped on the back in red "Walker & Boutall 16 Clifford's Inn Fleet Street London" and annotated in black in an unknown hand "Wallaces Studies | 2670 | 2nd print | Novr 30/99"; reproduced as fig. 7, vol. 2, p. 42. 9. Sheet of notes on a Macmillan & co compliments slip with notes in ink and pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand headed "Twisted or Spiral cut Arrowheads" and proof illustration approximately 11.5 cm x 8 cm showing five prehistoric arrowheads (from drawings made by A. R. Wallace? at the National Museum, Washington), reproduced as fig. 9, vol. 2 p. 44. Sheet cut in half and pinned to notes when listed; the back is stamped in red with the right-hand section of the stamp "Walker & Boutall 16 Clifford's Inn Fleet Street London" and annotated in black in an unknown hand "Implements | 2670 | ny 13 1900", part of the text "Wallaces Implements | 2670 | Jany 13 1900" on the full sheet (see item 10 below.) 10. Proof illustration approximately 14 cm x 10 cm showing various prehistoric implements (from drawings made by A. R. Wallace? at the National Museum, Washington) including in the centre stone scrapers and arrowheads, marked into sections in pencil. Sheet cut in half; the back is stamped in red with the left-hand section of the stamp "Walker & Boutall 16 Clifford's Inn Fleet Street London" and annotated in black in an unknown hand "Wallace" and "Ja", part of the text "Wallaces Implements | 2670 | Jany 13 1900" on the full sheet ( see item 9 above); reproduced as figs 5, 6, 8 and 10 vol. 2 pp. 41-43. 11. Proof illustration approximately 19 cm x 14 cm showing various prehistoric implements (from drawings made by A. R. Wallace? at the National Museum, Washington) including at bottom left the stylised figure of a llama, marked into sections in pencil with annotations in ink in A. R. Wallace's? hand (ink over fainter printed image of writing) crossed through in ink. The back is stamped in red "Walker & Boutall 16 Clifford's Inn Fleet Street London" and annotated in black in an unknown hand "Wallaces Implements | 2670 | Jany 13 1900"; reproduced as figs 19-24, vol. 2 pp. 49-52. 12.Proof illustration approximately 19 cm x 14 cm showing various prehistoric implements (from drawings made by A. R. Wallace? at the National Museum, Washington) including at top left stone spoons or cups viewed from above, marked into sections in pencil. The back is stamped in red "Walker & Boutall 16 Clifford's Inn Fleet Street London" and annotated in black in an unknown hand "Wallaces Implements | 2670 | Jany 13 1900"; reproduced in vol. 2 as figs 11and 12 (p 45) 13, 14 and 15 (p. 46) and 16, 17 and 18 (p. 48). 13. Notes on a small squared paper sheet approx. 8 cm x 15 cm in A. R. Wallace's hand in ink over pencil beginning " Pipes human & animal form in Ohio & Illinois", apparently notes on specimens of native implements displayed in American Museums; enclosed when listed in folder 1 of items 1-7 above. 14. Faint pencil sketches on both sides of a small squared paper sheet approx. 8 cm x 15 cm: one side showing a stone knife? captioned in pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand "Chipped flint. Mound. Macon Co. W. Virginia" and an axe head? decorated with the figure of a man apparently killing a snake, captioned "A[r]t. Coll. Cincinnati"; the other side showing a map or geological diagram with strata? labelled "hill of Loess", "loess" and "mid. drift gravel with pebbles", captioned "W. Sioux City".15. Notes on a small squared paper sheet approx. 8 cm x 15 cm in A. R. Wallace's hand in pencil and ink beginning on one side in pencil "Leaving Clifton Forge | 7 am | (1) Lowmoor - low furnaces in rows", apparently notes of a train trip through Virginia and the views and geological features seen, with notes of time and place including 8.40 at Fort Spring at the bottom of the page and continuing increasingly illegibly overleaf where three sketches in ink,of a stone arrowhead, hoe, and gouge, headed "Occasional - N.Y. Museum" with notes, are upside down with relation to the train journey notes. Enclosed when listed in folder 1 of items 1-7 above. 16. Notes and sketches on a small squared paper sheet approx. 8 cm x 15 cm in A. R. Wallace's hand in pencil and ink beginning on one side in ink over pencil "Ruined Pueblo of Penasco Blanca"; sketches in ink overleaf, of Sioux, Utah Indian and Eskimo stone tools including knives, pick and hammer, headed "American National Museum Washington"; not reproduced in "Studies Scientific and Social". 17. Sketch of a tomahawk in ink on a small squared paper sheet approx. 8 cm x 15 cm, captioned in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand "Stone tomahawk. | Modern Indian." 18. Folder made from two lined exercise-book pages, titled on the front in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Illustrations for | American Museums | Proofs &c." When listed this contained one small squared paper sheet of notes on pueblos and sketches of Sioux, Utah Indian and Eskimo stone tools headed "American National Museum Washington" (item 16 above) but no other documents or images. 19: Envelope labelled in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Notes on sketches of H[unt] implements". 20. Faint pencil outline sketch of a mountain range on a small squared paper sheet approx. 8 cm x 15 cm captioned in A. R. Wallace's hand in pencil "Alleghanes [sic, for Alleghenies i.e. Alleghany Highlands] nr Clifton Forge" with an arrow pointing out "N. Mountain"; diagrams in pencil of 5 circles, one overlapped by an irregular square, on the back; old ref WP2/16/47, possibly done on the same day as the notes mentioning Clifton Forge (item 15 above). Place: New York USA Virginia USA Washington DC USA Notes: "American Museums" was first published in "Fortnightly Review", Sep and Oct 1887. Several letters from A. R. Wallace to his family from America mention the Museums (see particularly WP1/5/12, 19 Dec 1886).
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NHM-WP06.006.010
Photo:
[1886--1887]
Eight sepia photographic prints enclosed between two pieces of grey card, one labelled in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Photos | N. American Museum specimens", two of which are reproduced in 'American Museums', in A. R. Wallace, "Studies Scientific and Social", (London 1900) vol. 2, Ch. 2, ; showing cased specimens of animals, birds and sponges displayed at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA c.1886/87, comprising: 1. Sepia photographic print approximately 12cm square, showing a museum interior containing two glass display cases of stuffed animal specimens including deer, a beaver, hares and a bear. The cases partly obscures the words "European Fauna" on the wall behind them. The print is annotated on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's? and possibly another hand " 16602 | Chap 2 | Vol 2 | 3.5/8 " wide | 32055" and upside down relative to this "4"; reproduced as fig. fig. 4, p. 33 "European Fauna" in 'American Museums', in A. R. Wallace, "Studies Scientific and Social", (London 1900) vol. 2, Ch. 2. 2. Sepia photographic print 16 cm x 15 cm with two torn pieces of sticking-paper on the upper back corners; showing a museum interior with part of a lower floor and surrounding narrow upper gallery containing stuffed specimens of animals including kangaroos, deer, an armadillo and alpacas in glass cases labelled "Class of Mammals", upper gallery containing a case of Australian mammals, floor of upper gallery partly obscuring the words "South American Fauna" on the wall of the lower gallery; reproduced as fig. 3, p. 29 "South American Fauna" in 'American Museums', in A. R. Wallace, "Studies Scientific and Social", (London 1900) vol. 2, Ch. 2. 3. Sepia photographic print 23.5 cm x 19 cm showing a large series of small stuffed birds (hummingbirds) in a glass Museum case, placed with outstretched wings in 19 horizontal rows of about 12 specimens per row. Annotated on the back in pencil an unknown hand "Museum of Comparative zoology Harvard University | South American Room | Trochilidae". 4. Sepia photographic print 23.5 cm x 19 cm showing stuffed specimens of seals including a California sea lion in a glass museum case, with part of a case of sea-shells visible in the lower left corner. Annotated on the back in pencil in an unknown hand "Museum of Comparative zoology Harvard University | Pacific Room". 5. Sepia photographic print 23.5 cm x 19 cm showing a glass museum case labelled "African" containing stuffed specimens of African mammals including a lion, a leopard, a hyena and small cats. Annotated on the back in pencil in an unknown hand "Museum of Comparative zoology Harvard University | African Room". 6. Sepia photographic print 23.5 cm x 19 cm showing a museum interior and five glass and wood display cases containing specimens including shells and sponges, some in spirit bottles. The case closest to the viewer is labelled on the glass "Atlantic Fauna" and the words "Alcyonoid Polyps Sponges" are also visible. The print is annotated on the back in an unknown hand "Museum of Comparative zoology Harvard University | Atlantic Room". 7. Sepia photographic print 23.5 cm x 19 cm showing a glass museum case containing stuffed specimens of birds including a turkey and two other large birds on the floor of the case and four horizontal shelves containing birds (including chicks) in decreasing order of size from top to bottom. Part of an adjoining case of wading birds is visible on the right. The print is annotated in pencil in an unknown hand "Museum of Comparative zoology Harvard University | North American Room". 8. Sepia photographic print 23.5 cm x 19 cm showing stuffed specimens of monkeys and small cats in natural poses in a glass museum case, with the back legs of a tiger and leopard? visible on the left. Annotated on the back in pencil in an unknown hand "Museum of Comparative zoology Harvard University | Indo-Asiatic Room". Place: Cambridge Massachusetts USA Notes: Dated on the basis that A. R. Wallace visited Harvard University Museum in the USA in November 1886; "American Museums" was first published in "Fortnightly Review", Sep and Oct 1887. Several letters from A. R. Wallace to his family from America mention the Museums (see particularly WP1/5/12, 19 Dec 1886 and Raby 2002, ch. 12 n. 21).
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NHM-WP13.001.008
Printed:
1886?--1886?
Printed pamphlet, 8 pages, titled "John Hampden's letter to Professor Huxley, President of the Royal Society ... Suggested by his article in the Nineteenth Century, for December, 1895, in reply to Mr. Gladstone's comments on the book of Genesis." London, 1886? Annotated in pencil on the front in (John Hampden's?) hand "A.R.W. is (two illegible words) referred to." The hand is the same as that on the printed address by Hampden to A. R. Wallace of August 1885. Some sections of the text have been marked in red pencil. Place: London England
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| 2717. |
NHM-WP14
Printed:
1886--1910
Press Cuttings c1886-1910: Miscellaneous press cuttings apparently collected by A. R. Wallace, many with annotations in his hand. WP14/1 1891-1910 and undated Press cuttings on various topics. WP14/2 c1886-1887? Press cuttings from North American papers. Notes: See also other press cuttings throughout the collection, including enclosures to letters in correspondence series WP1, letters to editors in WP12 and book reviews of and by Wallace in publications and related papers, WP6 and WP7.
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| 2718. |
NHM-WP14.002
Printed:
1886--1913
Press cuttings, most from North American newspapers with a few from British papers reporting news from America; on a variety of subjects including reports of A. R. Wallace's visit and lecture tour. Notes: When listed these were among 36 cuttings in an envelope addressed to A. R. Wallace, postmarked Leeds April (19)13, annotated on the back in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's hand "Press notices of new book sent me "; the envelope and press reviews of some of his books have been transferred to series WP6, papers [re books by A. R. Wallace]; 1 from a (British?) paper 1901 on an incident in Cairo has been transferred to WP14/1; press cuttings on various topics. NOTE: Some reviews of A. R. Wallace's books have been RELOCATED and placed with papers re the particular book reviewed. All brittle, many folded many times and need larger container, some small tears.
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| 2719. |
NHM-WP14.002.018
Printed:
1886?--1887
Four marked or annotated press cuttings from American newspapers including "The Washington Post", three 1887 and one undated (1886?) with reports of A. R. Wallace's visit to America; in envelope labelled in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Interesting Newspaper extracts. | America 1886-7"; enclosures are separately recorded; see WP14/2/19-22. Place: USA Notes: Found loose in Box 2 and added here when listing. P J Lucas 9/6/03
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NHM-WP17.004.002
Photo:
1886?--1886?
View of a high waterfall with pine woods in foreground, (Yosemite National Park, California USA) captioned "B 1057. Bridal Veil Falls, 900 Feet. Taber Photo., San Fran" Sepia photographic print approximately 24 cm X 17 cm, with part of caption on the right missing, mounted on slightly larger card. Place: California USA Notes: Date based on the year that A. R. Wallace was in the USA. There are no annotations on the back. Not reproduced in either "My Life" or "Studies Scientific and Social" but possibly reproduced in some other work not seen.
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NHM-WP17.004.003
Photo:
1886?--1886?
View of high distant cliffs with a narrow central waterfall, pine woods and a stream in the foreground. Captioned " B 1049. Virgin Tears, 3,000 Feet. Yosemite Valley. Taber Photo., San Francisco." Sepia photographic print approximately 19 cm x 24 cm, mounted on slightly larger card. Annotated on the front lower edge in A. R. Wallace's? hand " 3 1/2 [inches] " with an arrow pointing to the right; and on the back in pencil in an unknown hand "057 | 16280" Place: California USA Notes: Reproduced in A. R. Wallace's "Studies Scientific and Social" (1900) vol. 1 fig. 4, p. 8. Date based on the year that A. R. Wallace was in the USA.
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| 2722. |
NHM-WP17.004.004
Photo:
1886?--1886?
View of high sheer cliff with wooded slopes and a river in the foreground. (Yosemite National Park, California USA). Captioned "B 2617. El Capitan, 3,300 ft., (looking out the Valley.) Taber Photo., San Francisco." Sepia photographic print approximately 19 cm x 24 cm, mounted on slightly larger card. Annotated on the back in an unknown hand "057 | 16279". Place: California USA Notes: Reproduced in A. R. Wallace's "Studies Scientific and Social" (1900) vol. 1 fig. 2 p. 6. Date based on the year that A. R. Wallace was in the USA.
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| 2723. |
NHM-WP17.004.005
Photo:
1886?--1886?
View of a high rocky peak with pine woods and a river in the foreground. (Yosemite National Park, California USA). Captioned "B 2592. Sentinel Rock, 3.068 ft. (looking up the Valley.) Taber Photo., San Francisco." Sepia photographic print approximately 19 cm x 24 cm, mounted on slightly larger card. Annotated on the back in an unknown hand "057 | 16278". Place: California USA Notes: Reproduced in A. R. Wallace's "Studies Scientific and Social" (1900) vol. 1 fig. 3, p. 8. Date based on the year that A. R. Wallace was in the USA.
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WSPEC351.11
Book:
Sclater, Philip L. 1886. Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum, vol. 11: Passeriformes Fringilliformes Part II - Coerebidae, Tanagridae and Icteridae. London: Trustees of the British Museum.
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| 2731. |
NHM-WP07.042.[04]
Printed:
1887
Press cutting from "The Nation" no. 1128, pp. [121]-122, undated (1887?) , headed "The American School of Evolutionists", a review by A. R. Wallace of E D Copes, "The Origin of the Fittest: Essays on Evolution" (New York, 1887), partly pasted onto two sheets of red-lined blue paper, the second annotated in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand " A.R. Wallace | Written at Washington D.C.";
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| 2732. |
NHM-WP07.042.[05]
Printed:
1887
Press cuttings from "The Independent" 17 Mar 1887 p. 11 of A review by A. R. Wallace of E D Copes, "The Origin of the Fittest: Essays on Evolution" (New York, 1887), some passages marked in red and blue pencil, partly pasted onto two sheets of red-lined blue paper;
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NHM-WP09.001.001
Note:
1887--1887
Ms list of 8 lecture titles with notes on how illustrated, in A. R. Wallace's hand written on the back of headed paper from the Hamilton hotel, Washington D.C. USA, 1 folio hand headed "Mr A R Wallace's Lectures on Natural History" ; undated but almost certainly 1887; see A. R. Wallace's letters to his family from the Hamilton hotel 1887 in letters from the USA and Canada. Place: USA
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| 2734. |
NHM-WP14.002.014
Printed:
1887
Undated (1887?) cutting from an (American?) newspaper headlined "A slight exaggeration", a joke allegedly quoting a begging letter received at the Paris Bureau de Bienfaisance. The reverse shows part of a (joke?) on the subject of Judges, Congress, and the prohibition of alcohol. Place: USA
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NHM-WP08.001.005
Printed:
1887--1907?
"Lejeunea Holtii, A new Hepatic from Killarney" by Richard Spruce, reprint with dark blue cover, from the Journal of Botany, vol.25 (Feb 1887) pp 33-82 plus tab. 272. Passages on pp. 36, 75 and 76 are marked in blue pencil, with marginal annotations in Spruce's? hand on pp. 75 and 76. The front cover is dated "(1887)" in A. R. Wallace's? hand, annotated "Spruce | Very interesting discussion on the distribution of Hepaticae &c" in A. R. Wallace's hand, and "Marked Copy pp. 75-76" in A. R. Wallace's? or WGW's? hand. Place: Ireland Notes: Last date based on the period when A. R. Wallace was working on his edition of Spruce's Journal, and therefore the likely date of the annotations in his hand.
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NHM-WP09.001
Note:
1887?--1894?
Ms and printed lists including titles and some locations, dates and payments made for public lectures given by A. R. Wallace.
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NHM-WP09.005.001
Note:
1887?
Ms in A. R. Wallace's hand headed "If a man die shall he live again" , 35 numbered lined folios of writing pad, enclosed in blue and buff pad cover but loose; buff side of cover is annotated faintly in red pencil in A. R. Wallace's? hand "Lectures on Spiritualism".
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NHM-WP14.002.003
Printed:
1887?
Cutting from "The Times" (London), Friday (date missing), on the production-line slaughter and butchering of hogs in a Chicago meat works. Two sections pasted together. The reverse contains parts of police reports on offences committed in Soho and Pimlico (London). Place: England USA
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NHM-WP14.002.004
Printed:
1887?
Undated press cutting c.1887? with no title or headline, (from a New York paper?) containing three short amusing anecdotes on human behaviour, two by "Burdette" reprinted from the "Brooklyn Eagle" and one with no by-line from the "Boston Beacon". The reverse contains part of reports on bills introduced and passed including one relating to Brooklyn Bridge (New York City). Place: USA
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NHM-WP14.002.005
Printed:
1887?
Cutting from a (Denver, Colorado?) paper, column 1 page 8, undated, (1887?) headlined "Forming a new party" on the formation of the American Party to be represented Colorado by Henri R Foster, outlining its political platform. Several points, including proposed control of immigration, nationalisation, land ownership and monopolies, have been marked in pencil. The reverse contains advertisements. Place: USA
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NHM-WP14.002.009
Printed:
1887?
Undated (1887?) cutting from a (Denver, Colorado?) newspaper of a cartoon showing the head of a black boy wearing a hat with three chickens tucked into the band and the caption "Injured Innocence". The reverse shows part of a what is apparently a report on a religious conference, mentioning the Denver journal "Inter Ocean" and the Swedenborgian Church. Place: USA
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NHM-WP14.002.010
Printed:
1887?
Undated (1887?) cutting from an (Ohio?) newspaper with the headline "Couldn't Support Him" by (or reprinted from) "Texas Colonel", a joke in dialect about an old Negro man and a political candidate. The reverse contains part of a report on a political meeting on the governorship of Ohio addressed by John A Bingham. Place: USA
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NHM-WP14.002.011
Printed:
1887?
Undated (1887?) cutting from a (San Francisco?) newspaper headlined "Digest of Game Laws of California" giving dates on which various types of game can legally be shot. The reverse shows part of two advertisements for San Francisco hotels. Place: USA
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NHM-WP14.002.012
Printed:
1887?
An undated (1887?) cutting (from "The Post", Washington?) a humorous poem with no by-line titled "Pay with Caire" on the subject of U.S. taxes, each line ending in word ending in "aire" e.g. "dealaire" (dealer) "liquaire" (liquor). The reverse shows part of a report on political support for Mr Cleveland. (The President, Grover Cleveland?) mentioning a Washington "Post" correspondent. Place: USA
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