WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

natural history club meetings and collections of flints, shells and
insects; visit to Prof Marsh at Newhaven Connecticut, his fossil
collection including great animal skulls and skeletons; explosion
of rotten ostrich egg in Marsh's museum (Peabody Museum,
Yale); Alfred Russel Wallace's lecture to ladies' college at
Poughkeepsie; route of travel to Baltimore via New York.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, William Greenell, born 1871
Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925
Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899
Place: Japan USA
WP1/5/11 Letters from the USA and Canada
Undated postscript headed ''Baltimore'' to a letter from Alfred
Russel Wallace to his son William? from Baltimore, Dec 1886? re
Newhaven landscape; prof Marsh's 10 acre grounds and house of
his own design with octagonal sitting room and rooms displaying
china and artefacts including American Indian scalps and heads of
animals shot by Marsh; Marsh's travels in the Rocky Mountains;
Baltimore park, streets and buildings; Maryland a Slave state
before the war, many people black, antics of black waiters in
hotels.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, William Greenell, born 1871
Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899
Place: USA
WP1/5/12 Letters from the USA and Canada
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his wife Annie, from Boston,
19 Dec (1886) re disappointment at lack of lecture engagements
on return (from Baltimore), agent Williams not managing well, but
some interest from Ohio, advertisements now in some scientific
journals and new circulars sent out, sending copy of circular and
some local bills of fare to Violet, hopes to get enough lecturing to
cover costs of travel to California in spring or summer but journey
more expensive than to London, thinks people bored with natural
history and want more exciting subjects; will spend winter in
Washington and live more cheaply; has been visiting American
museums and will write an article on them for Harris; problem of
continual packing of clothing and sundries, will leave some in
storage, lifebelt and picnic basket useless but overshoes a boon;
freezing weather, ribald reaction of people in the street to his fur
coat; assumes Annie will spend new year at Hurst, receipt of her
letter of Dec 1.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, Annie, née Mitten, born c.1846
Wallace, Violet Isabel? 1869-1945
Mitten, William, 1819-1906
Williams, Mr, fl 1886
Harris, Frank, 1856-1931
Place: USA
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