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Mirlees, ?, fl 1886<br />

Holmes, ?, fl 1886<br />

Woodbury, ?, fl 1886?<br />

Williams, Mr, fl 1886<br />

Wood, ?, fl 1886<br />

Place: USA Java Mexico<br />

<strong>WP</strong>1/5/5 Letters from the USA and Canada<br />

Letter from <strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong> <strong>Wallace</strong> to William Mitten, from<br />

Boston, 21 Nov 1886 with a postscript 22 Nov 1886; re lack of<br />

mail from England; success of his lectures at the Lowell Institute<br />

(Boston); returned today from visit to Williamstown, stayed with<br />

resident of College, gave two lectures, visited waterfall with<br />

Professor of Natural History, sending roots of a Lonchitis (fern) to<br />

Annie and seeds of a gentian (some for Miss Jekyll) to Mitten; any<br />

news of letting of house at Godalming; plans to be in Baltimore<br />

November 30 to December 10, contact at Peabody Institute; PS<br />

letter from his wife Annie posted 13 days ago just arrived.<br />

Name: <strong>Wallace</strong>, <strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong>, 1823-1913<br />

Mitten, William, 1819-1906<br />

<strong>Wallace</strong>, Annie, née Mitten, born c.1846<br />

Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932<br />

Place: USA England<br />

Notes: 2 folios, postcript (f2) torn.<br />

<strong>WP</strong>1/5/6 Letters from the USA and Canada<br />

Letter from <strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong> <strong>Wallace</strong> to his wife Annie, from Boston,<br />

22 Nov 1886 re receipt of her letter after a month without news;<br />

visit to Williamstown, sending plants of fern polystichum<br />

acrostichoides growing near a waterfall there and some moth<br />

cocoons for son William, moths should emerge in spring,<br />

instructions for care; stay with Dr Carter, President of the<br />

(Williamstown) College, and his daughter, invitation to return to<br />

view spring flowers; orchids including Cypripedum spectabile<br />

common; has sent gentian seeds to her papa (William MItten);<br />

fears for his voice as has a cold, will wear respirator whenever<br />

going out, to travel 100 miles to lecture tomorrow; people<br />

becoming ''oppresively kind and respectful.''<br />

Name: <strong>Wallace</strong>, <strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong>, 1823-1913<br />

<strong>Wallace</strong>, Annie, née Mitten, born c.1846<br />

Carter, ?, fl 1886<br />

<strong>Wallace</strong>, Violet Isabel? 1869-1945<br />

<strong>Wallace</strong>, William Greenell, born 1871<br />

Mitten, William, 1819-1906<br />

Place: Boston Williamstown Massachusetts USA<br />

<strong>WP</strong>1/5/7 Letters from the USA and Canada<br />

Small cream envelope approximately 14 cm x 8cm annotated on<br />

the back in pencil in WGW's? hand ''Boston'', containing six press<br />

cuttings from:<br />

<strong>The</strong> Boston Daily Advertiser 5 Nov 1886, reporting on <strong>Alfred</strong><br />

<strong>Russel</strong> <strong>Wallace</strong>'s lecture on the ''Permanence of Oceans'' at the<br />

137<br />

21 Nov 1886<br />

22 Nov 1886<br />

Nov 1886<br />

<strong>WP</strong>1

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