WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

WP1/3/80 Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his sister Fanny (Mrs Sims)
from Holly House Barking E, 31 Dec 1871, announcing the birth
of his second child, a son, the previous night.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Sims, Frances, née Wallace, died 1893
Wallace, William Greenell, born 1871
Wallace, Herbert Spencer, 1867-1874
Notes: This was in a 1904 half-envelope with other letters: see
WP18/17 for description of envelope.
WP1/3/81 Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893
Envelope containing a letter and ms notes. The envelope is
annotated (by Alfred Russel Wallace?) in ink ''letter with no place,
or date, or name | one description of wonderful caverns - Old
Hatch mentioned '' and in pencil beneath ''old'' deleted: '' Phoebe
Hatch aet 15!''. Contents:
1: letter on mourning paper, signed ''X'', from Derwent Villa,
Sydenham Road North, (Cheltenham?) May, (no day or year date),
to Mrs Sims (Alfred Russel Wallace's sister Fanny), thanking her
for her kind letter and likenesses of Alfred Russel Wallace and
aunt (Wilson?); describing the writer's step-daughter Mrs York
and her children and reminiscing about childhood times at
Dulwich. Annotated in pencil (by Alfred Russel Wallace?)
''?1872-74''
2: One folio folded headed ''My description continued'', apparently
part of a letter, in blue ink in an unknown hand, describing
(limestone?) caves with underground lakes visited by the writer
and old Mr Hatch; mentioning Hatch's daughter Phoebe, Mr Sims
and Mrs Cole.
3: Ms in black ink in an unknown hand, one folded folio headed
''Robert Montgomery'' on the right and ''1842'' on the other, with
notes on the life and poetry of Robert Montgomery and, under
''1842'', the role of major poets including Wordsworth in
procuring funding to build a church (near Cardiff Castle?).
Name: Sims, Frances, née Wallace, died 1893
Wilson, Mrs, née Greenell, fl 1840?
Sims, Thomas, fl 1850
Hatch, Phoebe, fl 1872?
Montgomery, Robert, 1807-1855
Place: Cardiff Wales Cheltenham Gloucestershire England
WP1/3/82 Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his sister Fanny from 2,
Western Villas, Abergavenny, 26 Aug 1883, describing a visit to
their childhood home in Usk; gravestones of Mary Anne and
Emma (siblings?) in the churchyard; visit to Ragland Castle; Rose
and William Mitten at Abergavenny.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Sims, Frances, née Wallace, died 1893
Mitten, William, 1819-1906
Mitten, Rose, fl 1890-1905
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31 Dec 1871
[1872-1874]
26 Aug 1883
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