WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Hanbury, Daniel, 1848-1896?
Place: England Hurstpierpoint West Sussex Paris France
Notes: Letter no in contents list: 56
WP1/3/59 Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to John Wallace, from 9, St.
Mark's Crescent, Regents Park London NW, 25 May 1869 re
probate (of his mother's will?) and payment of Wallace family
legacies with details of amounts; sister Fanny's finances; Thomas
Sims's business; loss of money through investments; details of
annual domestic expenditure; comparative cost of living in
London and the country; sales of ''Malay Archipelago'';
application for museum position; request for seeds of wild
Californian plants; children, Alfred Russel Wallace's daughter,
now 4 months old, named Violet Isabel.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, John, 1819-1895
Wallace, Violet Isabel?, born 1869
Wallace, Herbert Spencer, 1867-1874
Wallace, Mary Anne, born c 1789 died 1868
Watts,?, died c.1860s?
Burden, ?, fl 1869
Millard, ?, fl 1869
Wallace, Herbert Edward, c.1829-1851
Wallace, Eliza, 1810-1832
Wallace, William G, died c.1845
Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875, Baronet
Grey, Thomas De, 1843-1919, 6th Baron Walsingham
Place: California USA London England
Notes: Letter no in contents list: 57. Annotated in ink an unknown
hand at top of last page: ''All I can find. M W'' (Mary Wallace née
Webster?)
WP1/3/60 Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893
MS by Alfred Russel Wallace addressed to George Silk, from
Batchian, Moluccas, 30? Nov 1858; first section headed ''Note on
the smoke nuisance''; suggesting the introduction of an Act of
Parliament to enforce the domestic use of smokeless fuel in
London; second section headed ''How they manage matters in the
Model Republic'', quoting a letter from California on official
appointments based on political party rather than qualifications.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Silk, George C, fl 1892
Place: California USA London England
Notes: Letter no in contents list: 58. See Alfred Russel Wallace to
George Silk from Batchian, 30 Nov 1858 (WP1/3/45), mentioning
sending this ms which was probably an enclosure to that letter.
This is the last letter listed in the contents, though not the last
document in the original binder.Torn at folds.
WP1/3/61
Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to Thomas Sims, undated and
121
25 May 1869
[30] Nov
1858
c Feb 1856
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