WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Wallace, Herbert Edward, c.1829-1851
Draper, Mr
Webster, Mr
Place: England (Hertford, Hertfordshire)
Notes: No in contents list: 1. Annotated in another hand, possibly
Alfred Russel Wallace's, in ink: ''From Mrs Wallace to Mr
Wilson, about legacies &c from Mr Greenell ... also about John ...
board to pay.''
WP1/3/4 Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893
Letter from Mary Anne Wallace (signed with illegible initials) to
Miss Draper, from Hertford, 12 Aug 1835, re Mr Wilson's
financial difficulties, consequent loss of legacies owed to the
Wallace children, and opinion that Miss Draper's father, as the coexecutor
of John Greenell's will, may be liable to pay them;
stoppage of interest payments, pressing debts; asking Miss Draper
to intercede, her father being ill.
Name: Wallace, Mary Anne, died 1868
Draper, Miss
Greenell, John
Wilson, Thomas
Wilson?, Martha
Place: England Hertford Hertfordshire
Notes: No in contents list: 2. Annotated in ink possibly in Alfred
Russel Wallace's hand ''Letter from Mrs. Wallace to Miss Draper
(August 1835) about Mr Wilson's bankruptcy & Mr Draper's joint
Executorship under Mr John Greenell's Will''. The ink annotations
are over and mostly obscuring earlier pencilled annotations with
apparently similar text which includes question marks.
WP1/3/5 Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893
Letter from A R Wallace to George (Silk), from Kington, 15 Jan
1840 asking about closure of library (in Hertford?) and sale of its
books, and describing his rail journey to Kington, Kington area,
outdoor pleasures of land surveying; Chartists.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Silk, George C, fl 1892
Wright, Samuel
Place: England Kington Hertfordshire Worcestershire
Notes: No in contents list: 3. Annotated in pencil, possibly by
Alfred Russel Wallace, ''to George Silk''.
WP1/3/6 Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his brother John, from
Kington, 11 Jan 1840, re the Penny Post, including a poem on the
subject; John's membership of the Literary Society; Chartist trials
at Monmouth; description of lodgings and Mr and Mrs Wright.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, John, 1819-1895
Wallace, William G, died c1845
Hill, Sir Rowland, knight, 1795-1879
Wright, Samuel
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12 Aug 1835
15 Jan 1840
11 Jan 1840
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