NHM-WP07.084.[02]    Printed:    1899   Copies of three numbers of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 1899 and loose front and back cover without inner pages, of a duplicate, comprising: 2. "Journal of the Society for Psychical Research" no CLVII Vol IX, March 1899, front cover signed by A. R. Wallace and annotated in his hand " Podmore's replyÂ…", containing "Clairvoyance and Poltergeists", letter to the Editor by Frank Podmore in reply to A. R. Wallace, pp. 37-45, with pencil markings and comments in A. R. Wallace's hand in text and margins. Notes: All covers are in extremely poor condition, fragile and acidic with crumbling edges.

NHM-WP07.084.[04]    Printed:    1899   Copies of three numbers of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 1899 and loose front and back cover without inner pages, of a duplicate, comprising: 4. Loose front and back covers of a copy of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, No CLVI, Vol. IX, Feb, 1899, annotated on the front cover at the top in ink A. R. Wallace's hand "p. 22- (31?) Mr. Wallace reply to Mr. Podmore. | Duplicate. | Numerous cases of Clairvoyance, and Disturbances of various kinds" ; the inside back cover includes notices of forthcoming meetings, including the reading of a paper by Mary H Kingsley on apparitions in West Africa on Friday, 10 Mar . Notes: All covers are in extremely poor condition, fragile and acidic with crumbling edges.

S557a    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1899. Holland's militarisme [Dutch militarism], II. Meening van Dr. A. Russel Wallace: National defence for small communities. Jonge Gids (Amsterdam) 2: 193-194.   Text   Image

WSPEC322    Periodical contribution:     Fleutiaux, E. 1899. Eucnemidae de la collection Fry. Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique 43 : 220-249.   PDF

NHM-WP05.002    Legal:    [1900]   Legal document relating to the Land Nationalisation Society.

NHM-WP06.006.003    Photo:    [1900]   Images reproduced in 'The Gorge of the Aar and its Teachings' in A. R. Wallace, "Studies Scientific and Social" (London 1900) vol. 1, pp. 129-145, figs 23 and 24, comprising: 1. Proof sheet? with black and white photographic image approx. 7 cm x 10 cm showing a narrow wooden walkway with railings running through a steep narrow gorge; annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand in ink "'Studies' vol. 1. chap. V. p. 127" and "The Aarschlucht" and in pencil "Chap VI". Reproduced in vol. 1, ch. VI, p. 132, undated, attributed to Coomara Swainy (sic, for Coomaraswamy). 2. Black and white photo approximately 18.5 cm x 25 cm mounted on very slightly larger card, undated, with no annotations, showing the Terminal gorge of the Gorner Glacier, Zermatt. 3. Small sepia or faded black and white, partly hand- coloured photo approximately 9.5 cm x 7 cm showing the terminal gorge of the Gorner Glacier, Zermatt. The central section showing the plug of ice at the far end of the gorge is tinted blue. Reproduced in vol. 1, fig 24, facing p. 136. Undated, attributed to Percy Kendall. This is a reduced version of no 2 above. Place: Zermatt Switzerland Notes: "The Gorge of the Aar and its Teachings" was first published in "Fortnightly Review" August 1896.

S576ac    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1900. Mutisia decurrens. The Garden 57 (No. 1476, 3 March 1900): 169.   Text   Image

NHM-WP06.008.020    Photo:    1900?--1900?   View of Nutwood Cottage, Godalming. Undated (c. 1900?) sepia photograph approximately 12.5 cm x 10 cm; annotations on the back in pencil in A. R. Wallace's and another? hand include [cop] initials | 175 screen | 1 full page very outside measurement 3 3/4 x 6/ 3/8 | keep in cover". Reproduced in "My Life" (1905) vol. 2 facing p. 103, unattributed. Notes: Date based on letters re sale of/money from and dates when working on autobiography

NHM-WP04.004.001    Note:    [1901]   Plans and elevations for A. R. Wallace's house "Old Orchard" at Broadstone, Dorset; undated, on one sheet of translucent paper in ink and colour wash, very damaged, annotations include, in pencil, "Dr Russell [sic] Wallace | Parkstone" at top left and "J Donkin- archt | Bournemouth" in pencil at bottom right; three dimensional view of the house in the centre almost torn away. Place: Broadstone Dorset England

NHM-WP04.004.004    Note:    [1901--1902]   Ground floor plan for cottage at Broadstone, in ink on white squared paper, with notes and instructions in A. R. Wallace's hand and apparently drawn by him. Place: Broadstone Dorset England

S595a    Book contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1901. Foreword [dated 18 April 1901]. In: Richardson, John. 1901. The education problem and its solution. London: Twentieth Century Press, Ltd., pp. 3-4.   Text   Image

NHM-WP02.006.005.06.[02]    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel  [1902--1916]   TS copy of the above with slight variations, 9 numbered and 1 (last) unnumbered folios typed on one side only with corrections and annotations in pencil and red ink including the number [of letters from each correspondent?] in WGW's? hand; last page, headed "Letters received by A.R. Wallace on his 90th birthday", is not present in the Ms version.3. List in WGW's? A. R. Wallace's? hand in ink headed "Missing letters to Dr A.R. Wallace from - " listing approximately 30 names in total divided into the categories Biologists, Physicists, Social Reformers &c., Authors, Journalists &c., Politicians, and Unclassified; 1 folio of lined blue exercise-book paper written on both sides. Notes: Most folios of the ms are folded, some are single, pages written on one side only. The typed version was found in box three and inserted here. PJL 19/6/03

NHM-WP04.004.009    Note:    [1902]   View from "Old Orchard": three undated postcards (c. 1902?) photographer unknown, showing sepia photographic views across fields and woods to a distant town and low hills; two are identical, two form a panoramic view when placed next to each other; two are annotated on the back "Fragmented view" and the third "View from A. R. Wallace's house "Old Orchard" in Broadstone Dorset", all annotations are in biro made c. 2000 in Mrs Richard Wallace's hand. Place: Broadstone Dorset England Notes: Personal information from Mrs Richard Wallace June 2003.

NHM-WP07.087.[01]    Note:    [1902]   "Eternalism: A Theory of Infinite Justice", undated MS c 1902? in A. R. Wallace's hand; 15 numbered folios of lined notebook paper written on one side only, in ink with corrections; review of a book so titled, by Orlando Jay Smith (Boston and NY, 1902) Notes: When listed was with unrelated papers in an annotated 1897 envelope now transferred to series WP18, Miscellanea (WP18/25).

NHM-WP18.006    Correspondence:   Wallace Alfred Russel  [1902]--[1905]   Buff envelope 19cm x 13 cm, annotated on the top flap in blue pencil in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand "Photo of self"; when listed contained a portrait of A. R. Wallace (see WP6/8/18) in a smaller envelope and unrelated photos and papers.

NHM-WP18.021    Note:    [1902]--[1905]   Rough note in A. R. Wallace's? hand: "Articles, Letters &c. A.R.W. | 71- Papuan &c [2 illegible words] List | Lectures complete list of?"; on small sheet of cream letter paper approximately 15cm x 10cm. Notes: Possibly a file label, perhaps used when collating material for autobiography? Among letters congratulating A. R. Wallace on his 90th birthday when listed.

S595aa    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1902. Extracts of letters. In: Fowler, Canon. 1902. The president's address. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 1901: lviii.   Text   Image

S597a    Book contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1902. Letter [to Morrison Davidson, dated 10 August 1902]. In: Davidson, Morrison. 1902. Scotland for the Scots: Scotland revisited. London: Francis Riddell Henderson, pp. 93-94.   Text   Image

WSPEC317    Periodical contribution:     Distant, W.L. 1902. Rhynchotal notes – XVI. Heteroptera: Family Reduviidae (continued). Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology (7) 11: 203-258.   PDF

NHM-WP07.010    Note:    1902?   Note in A. R. Wallace's hand re the loss of the original Ms of his paper sent to Darwin; written on a brown envelope approx 24 cm x 14 cm, with text: "The first 8 letters I received from Darwin - (while in the Malay Archipelago) | N B The Mss of my paper sent to Darwin and printed in the Journal of the Linnean Society, was not returned to me, and seems to be lost. The proofs with the Mss. were Perhaps sent to Sir Charles Lyell, or to the Secretary of the Linn. Soc. or may some day be found. It was written on thin foreign note paper. | Alfred R. Wallace". The envelope was empty when listed. Place: Ternate Moluccas Netherlands Indies Notes: The letters were probably those sent to Cockerell for exhibition during the Darwin Centenary 1909: see letter from Cockerell 23 Mar 1909 (WP11/4). Dated on this basis and the possibility that the letters were first set aside for use when writing his autobiography, which he began in 1902: see letter to his son William 16 Mar 1902 (WP1/1/44). See also proof of Ternate paper, WP7/9.

NHM-WP02.001.005    Photo:    [1903--1913]   Very small extremely faded sepia photo showing a tall bearded old man, probably A. R. Wallace, standing in a garden near a small pond, with a young man (his son WGW?) leaning on a stone fence on the right; apparently photographed from an album or framed photograph; undated and without annotations.

S608a    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1903. Note on Nymphæa gigantea. The Garden 64 (No. 1668, 7 Nov. 1903): 310.   Text   Image

NHM-WP18.004.003    Note:    [1903]   Four folios of unsigned, undated rough ms notes in pencil, almost certainly by Frederick Bates and partly biographical, referring to ""Mr A. R.Wallace and my brother, who were then waiting instruction to join the ship that was to convey them to the Amazon", giving details of the writer's collection over a period of 14 years of entomological specimens, including Ci[n]cindelidae, (Cicindelidae?) Cantharidae and Heteromera. Two sheets are white paper, one, smaller, cream, and one blue. Notes: Writing almost illegible in places and some very faint. Folios numbered 1-4 in no particular order, can't tell where if anywhere the text logically begins. P J Lucas Feb 2003.

BM-1920,0503.5-Prints-Drawings    Photo:    1904   Lithograph. Portrait of Alfred Wallace, half-length, in three-quarter profile to right, appears to be holding papers; wearing spectacles and overcoat. 1904. Initialled and dated by artist on stone next to image at lower left: 'W.R. / 04'. Height 222 mm, width 243 mm. Acquired 1920.

NHM-WP06.008.001    Note:    [1904--1914]   Sheets in A. R. Wallace's? hand headed "List of Books and papers by Alfred R. Wallace", 4p (2 folios) old thin lined paper. Notes: Although in the third person and possibly written by WGW for Marchant, this looks much more like A. R. Wallace's own hand and has been assigned accordingly. PJL Nov 2003