WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Place: Dorset England
WP1/3/86 Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893
Envelope addressed to Alfred R. Wallace LLD, Parkstone,
Dorsetshire, England, with stamp cut out, part postmark:
Stock[ton] [Stockton], 1892. Cal., (day date illegible) on front,
New York Jul 5 1892 and Parkstone Jy 14 92 on back. Annotated
in pencil (by Alfred Russel Wallace?) ''Notes on Working Men in
1835-45''. CONTENTS: Ms in John Wallace's hand, headed ''The
Work problem 50 years ago by a Worker'' with notes on the wages
and conditions for builders' labourers in London from 1835-1845.
The letter is from Alfred Russel Wallace's brother John Wallace,
Stockton (California) Jun 30 1892, to Alfred Russel Wallace,
commenting on his ms and the problem of alcoholism in the
working classes in the past.
Name: Wallace, John, 1819-1895
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Place: Parkstone Dorset England USA
Notes: Ms is 1 lined folio, foolscap size when folded.
WP1/3/87 Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893
Letter from John Wallace to his brother Alfred Russel Wallace
from Stockton (California), 18 Nov 1893, re acknowledgement on
October 1 of Alfred Russel Wallace's letter dated September 15
reporting the death of their sister Fanny; work on connecting
houses to a sewerage system emptying into the San Joaquin River,
expense of board of health building requirments; general economic
depression due to the Democratic administration; Alfred Russel
Wallace's reaction in his letter of August 23 to John's views on the
theories of the Earth's crust.
Name: Wallace, John, 1819-1895
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Sims, Frances, née Wallace, died 1893
Place: Stockton California USA
WP1/3/88 Wallace Family Correspondence 1835-1893
Envelope addressed to Alfred Russel Wallace Broadstone Dorset,
postmarked London Mar 1 1904 and annotated in pencil ''H.E.W.
from Amazon | last letters''containing 3 letters from Herbert
Edward Wallace to his sister Fanny, from Neath c. Jun 1849?,
Tantarein c Sep 1849? and Barra de Rio Negro c. Aug 1851?. See
separate records WP1/3/75, WP1/3/76 and WP1/3/77 for
descriptions of the letters.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, Herbert Edward, c.1829-1851
Sims, Frances, née Wallace, died 1893
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30 June 1892
18 Nov 1893
1 Mar 1904
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