WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Notes: Letter no in contents list: 20. No year date. Annotated in
pencil in an unknown hand ''1851?'', but 1850 seems more likely
given the location (See Raby p. 57, n. 53)
WP1/3/22 Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893
Letter from Henry W Bates to Mrs Wallace (Mary Anne Wallace)
from Pará, 13 Jun 1851 with news of the death of her son Edward
(Herbert Edward) from yellow fever.
Name: Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892
Wallace, Mary Anne, born c 1789 died 1868
Wallace, Herbert Edward, c.1829-1851
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Miller, ?, died 1851
Place: Pará Brazil
Notes: Letter no in contents list: 21. Accompanying note
(destroyed) in Emma Bennett's, hand c. 2001; '' Letter to Mrs
Wallace from Bates re death of Edwd Wallace.'' Part of the text is
missing where a hole has been torn below the remains of the seal.
WP1/3/23 Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893
Letter from Henry W Bates to Mr Sims (husband of Frances
Wallace) from Pará, 18 Oct 1851 re the death of Edward Herbert
Wallace and the disposal of his effects, including his insect
collections.
Name: Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892
Sims, Thomas, fl 1850
Sims, Frances, née Wallace, died 1893
Stevens, Samuel
Miller, ?, died 1851
Place: Pará Brazil
Notes: Letter no in contents list: 21. Accompanying small brown
envelope, empty, (destroyed) labelled in an unknown hand: ''Oct
1851 | H. W. Bates to Mrs Wallace (& Mrs [sic] Sims) about
Herbert's death''.
WP1/3/24 Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to Richard Spruce, from on
board the brig Jordensen and from London, 19 Sep 1852-5 Oct
1852, re the burning and sinking of ship Helen off Brazil, his
rescue and voyage to London, the loss of his collections,
insurance, and future plans; news of Crystal Palace exhibition.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Spruce, Richard, 1817-1893
Stevens, Samuel
Loddiges, Conrad, 1821-1865
Place: Deal London Pará Brazil
Letter no in contents list: 22. Addressed in Alfred Russel
Wallace's hand to ''Illms. Senr. Ricardo Spruce, Pará, Brazil, to
be forwarded without delay.'' The address has been crossed
through and replaced, in another hand, with ''Rio Negro
[cundango] Henrique Antony.'' 2 folded folios, the first blue paper,
the second slightly larger cream. Folio 2 is annotated in pencil in
108
13 June 1851
18 Oct 1851
19 Sep - 5 Oct
1852
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