WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

WP1/5/13 Letters from the USA and Canada
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his wife Annie, from The
Hamilton, Washington DC, 3 Jan 1887, re arrival (from Boston)
on Dec 31 in a snowstorm, stayed with Mr Riley the entomologist
until a suitable room available, will stay at the Hamilton for next
two or three months; instructions re Alfred Russel Wallace's
pension; Williams now has applications for many Alfred Russel
Wallace lectures; meeting with Prof Coues; accounts from
MacMillan can be signed by Annie.
Stamped envelope addressed to her at Frith Hill, Godalming and
postmarked on the front Washington 3 Jan 1887 and on the back
with two overlapping postmarks, one New York, the other
Godalming? Some numbers (apparently two sums of money in
LSD) are written on the back in ink in an unknown hand.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, Annie, née Mitten, born c.1846
Wallace, William Greenell, born 1871
Wallace, Violet Isabel? 1869-1945
Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899
Riley , Charles Valentine, 1843-1895
Place: USA
WP1/5/14 Letters from the USA and Canada
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his daughter Violet from The
Hamilton, Washington DC, 15 Jan 1887 with detailed description
of a seance in Boston at which spirits including those of an
American Indian and a baby apparently materialised; another
seance at which spirits of Alfred Russel Wallace's Australian
cousin Algernon Wilson and a woman who had met Alfred Russel
Wallace at Kate Cook's apparently materialised; floral decorations
at a dinner in Boston hosted by John M Forbes with guests
including Asa Gray, O W Holmes and James Russell Lowell,
sending Violet a menu; sending a poem suitable for reciting cut
from a magazine; beauty of the city of Washington; lack of lecture
engagements, may go to Canada; letter to be forwarded to Violet's
aunt Fanny (Sims).
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, Violet Isabel?, born 1869
Sims, Frances, née Wallace, died 1893
Cook, Kate, fl 1873
Wilson, Algernon, fl 1854
Forbes , John Murray, 1812-1898
Gray, Asa, 1810-1888
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891
Place: Washington DC USA
Notes: A menu for the dinner referred to is held in the Houghton
Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University USA. ''Call
No.: MS Am 2166. Title: M. A. De Wolfe Howe menu collection,
(1) Parker house, Boston. [Menu for dinner given by John M.
Forbes to A.R. Wallace] [Boston] 29 Dec 1886.
The verso bears a list of those present, including J. R. Lowell, O.
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