WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

a box of plants collected including a beech fern and some
Asplenium septentrionale (fern); plans to go to Wengern and stay
a week; Mitten collecting mosses; cost of postage of newspapers
from England.
Stamped envelope with printed illustration of Hotel du Sauvage
and mountains, addressed to Mrs Wallace at Corfe View,
Parkstone, Dorset, postmarked on the front Meiringen 14 Jul 1895
and on the back Parkstone 16 Jul (1895).
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, Annie, née Mitten, born c.1846
Mitten, William, 1819-1906
Place: Switzerland Parkstone Dorset England
Notes: Od ref WP1/19/6/4and WP1/21/8. This letter was
previously filed in a paper folder labelled in WGW's? hand
''''Examd Not wanted'' almost certainly selected for J. Marchant
when writing Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences''
(London 1916).
WP1/4/9 Letters to Annie Mitten/Wallace
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his wife Annie from
Parkstone, Dorset, Saturday morning, annotated in pencil in an
unknown hand ''[?1896]'' but more likely to be c. Jul 1895 (See
other letters to Annie around this date), re plans for her father
(William Mitten) and Alfred Russel Wallace to tour in Switzerland
after her return; expects many rare plants in the mountains,
possibility of visiting Pilatus or Stanzenhorn, asks Annie to
enquire about hotel rates there, and about a hotel in Lucerne for
day of their arrival; regards to Bessie; asks for news of her tour
and fellow-travellers; receipt of letter from Miss Jekyll enclosing
an enquiry from another correspondent re effect of sea-air on
plants at Lyme Regis; mosquitoes at Rhone glacier.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, Annie, née Mitten, born c.1846
Mitten, William, 1819-1906
Mitten, Bessie, fl 1893
Wallace, Violet Isabel?, born 1869
Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932
Place: Parkstone Dorset Lyme Regis Dorset England Switzerland
Notes: OLD REF WP1/19/7/1and later WP1/21/9.This letter was
previously filed in a paper folder labelled in WGW's? hand
''Excursions &c.'' almost certainly selected for J. Marchant when
writing Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences''
(London 1916).
WP1/4/10 Letters to Annie Mitten/Wallace
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his wife Annie from
Parkstone, Dorset, 9 Aug 1896 re her arrival at Adelboden and
receipt of her letter and Violet's card; work in garden and orchid
house, box of orchids expected from Singapore shortly, teaching
Kate (housemaid?) how to care for orchids in his absence; his
tickets and luggage labels (for Switzerland) have arrived with list
of party, including Mr Le Gallienne, a poet and alleged Socialist;
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[July 1895]
9 Aug 1896
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