WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Mitten, William, 1819-1906
Place: Michigan USA
WP1/5/41 Letters from the USA and Canada
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his wife Annie from
Michigan Agricultural College, 31 Jul 1887
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, Annie, née Mitten, born c.1846
Place: Michigan USA
WP1/5/42 Letters from the USA and Canada
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his wife Annie from
Kingston, Canada, 3 Aug 1887
Stamped envelope addressed to William Mitten Esq
Hurstpierpoint Sussex England, postmarked on the front Kingston
Canada 4 Aug 1887 and on the back (Hassocks) 15 Aug 1887;
annotated in pencil in WGW's? hand ''Canada (4?) August''.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Place: Kingston Canada
Notes: The letter to Annie was almost certainly, like others to her,
enclosed with one to Mitten.
WP1/5/43 Letters from the USA and Canada
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his father in law William
Mitten, from Salt Lake City, 21 May 1887, urging Mitten to join
him in June or July at Manitou Springs in the Rocky Mountains,
has met a lady botanist who says plants magnificent; detailed
instructions on route from Quebec or Montreal, advice on luggage,
clothing, plant boxes and sphagnum, travel by steamer and train,
sleeping car accommodation and cost versus hotels; plants seen
growing wild in Salina, Kansas included Tradescantia virginica,
Yucca angustifola, Penstemon cobaea and fields covered with a
blue flower probably Camassia; will write to wife Annie from San
Francisco.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Mitten, William, 1819-1906
Wallace, Annie, née Mitten, born c.1846
Place: Utah USA Kansas USA Denver Colorado USA Canada
Notes: 2 folios. This letter was among others in a modern (1999)
envelope labelled in Richard Wallace's hand ''Letters to Annie,
WGW etc (&?) From Fred Birch'' and was appended to this file in
July 2003.
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31 July 1887
3 Aug 1887
21 May 1887
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