WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

WP1/8/88 Miscellaneous Correspondence 1870-1913 A-Z
Letter from New & Co, tailors, The Arcade, Bournemouth, to Dr
Russell (sic) Wallace, (Alfred Russel Wallace), 14 Jan 1909, re
shortening of a ribbon (on Alfred Russel Wallace's Order of
Merit?); mysterious loss of eye from hook and eye fastening.
Name: New & Co
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Place: Bournemouth Dorset England
Notes: Annotated in Alfred Russel Wallace's? or WGW's? hand in
pencil at the top of the letter: ''This refers to the ribbon of the
Order of Merit which Messrs New & Co were instructed to
shorten.''
WP1/8/89 Miscellaneous Correspondence 1870-1913 A-Z
Letter from New & Co, tailors, The Arcade, Bournemouth, to
Alfred Russel Wallace, 16 Jan 1909 re Alfred Russel Wallace's
dress waistcoat and hook and eye for ribbon (of Order of Merit?).
Name: New & Co
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Place: Bournemouth Dorset England
WP1/8/90 Miscellaneous Correspondence 1870-1913 A-Z
Telegram from Mrs Oppe?, from Tunbridge Wells, 8 Jan 1913 to
Alfred Russel Wallace congratulating him on reaching his
ninetieth birthday.
Name: Oppe?, Mrs, fl 1913
Place: Broadstone Dorset Tunbridge Wells Kent England
WP1/8/91 Miscellaneous Correspondence 1870-1913 A-Z
Letter from C E Orridge from the Drug Exchange, Farncombe,
Surrey, 8 Jan 1913 to Alfred Russel Wallace re an article about his
views of the past, present and future in ''The Star''; Orridge's
father's own foresight in predicting events; enclosing two plans for
workers' homes and pensions and a booklet of his (Orridge's) own
inventions (not present); Orridge's patented coal burning
smokeless stove; wishing Alfred Russel Wallace many more years
of peace and comfort (on his ninetieth birthday).
Name: Orridge, Robert, fl 1850?
Orridge, C E fl 1913
Giffard, Hardinge Stanley, 1st Earl of Halsbury, 1823-1921
Place: Broadstone Dorset Farncombe Surrey England
WP1/8/92 Miscellaneous Correspondence 1870-1913 A-Z
Letter from D Rhys Phillips from Swansea, 11 Jan 1913 to Alfred
Russel Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth
birthday, mentioning his connections with the Usk, Neath and
Swansea districts and offering a copy of Phillips' book ''The
Romantic History of the Monastic Libraries of Wales, Celtic and
Mediaeval Periods.''
Name: Phillips, D Rhys, fl 1913
Place: Broadstone Dorset England Swansea Wales
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