WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Cincinnati.''
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Place: Cincinnati Ohio USA
WP1/5/23 Letters from the USA and Canada
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to William Mitten from
Washington DC, 4 Apr (1887)
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Mitten, William, 1819-1906
Place: Washington DC USA
WP1/5/24 Letters from the USA and Canada
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his wife Annie from
Washington DC, 5 Apr 1887
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, Annie, née Mitten, born c.1846
Place: Washington DC USA
WP1/5/25 Letters from the USA and Canada
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his daughter Violet from
Cincinnati, Ohio, 17 Apr 1887
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, Violet Isabel?, born 1869
Place: Cincinnati Ohio USA
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Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his wife Annie from
Cincinnati, 22 Apr 1887 describing the countryside around
Cincinnati and the spring flowers in the woods, with botanical and
common names; flower roots sent to Miss Jekyll; instructions to
let the house (in England) for up to six months if possible; money
earned from lectures, lectures scheduled in Bloomington Indiana,
Sioux City Iowa and Kansas but no others so far; possibility of
travelling to California if a lecture can be given in San Francisco;
Diphtheria; enclosing press cuttings with instructions to keep any
sent together as they may be useful material for a book; enclosing
a Canadian stamp and a hunting story (press cutting?) for Willie
(neither present).
Press cutting headlined ''Colors in Animals. | Their uses clearly
explained'' reporting on Alfred Russel Wallace's lecture at Smith
& Nixon's Hall, Cincinnati; annotated in Alfred Russel Wallace's
hand ''Cincinnati Enquirer Ap 23/87 | A bad lamp! Which went out
in the mid of the lecture!!!''
Press cutting from The Post undated (c. Apr 1887) headlined ''Dr.
Wallace. | A scientist of world-wide reputation in Cincinnati'' with
brief details of Wallace, metioning his opinion of Henry George in
relation to land monopoly and his forthcoming lecture at Smith &
Nixon's Hall.
Stamped envelope addressed to Mrs Wallace Frith Hill Godalming
England, postmarked on the front Cincinnati 23 Apr 1887 and on
the back New (York?) 24 Apr 1887 and Godalming 6 May 1887;
annotated on the back at the bottom edge in Alfred Russel
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