WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Place: Broadstone Dorset Southampton Hampshire England
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Telegram from Sir Joseph Swan, from Purley, Surrey, 8 Jan 1913
to Alfred Russel Wallace congratulating him on reaching his
ninetieth birthday.
Name: Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson, Knight, 1823-1914
Place: Purley Surrey England
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Letter from Arnold D Taylor from Padstowe, North Cornwall, 8
Jan 1913 to Alfred Russel Wallace congratulating him on reaching
his ninetieth birthday, with news of Taylor's dealings with
landlords and efforts to improve the housing of the poor in
Padstowe, articles in ''The Daily News & Leader'' by Harold
Spender; anecdote about a large family living in one room where
the mother was giving birth and the father suffering from pleurisy,
in a house surrounded by uncultivated land which could provided
work and housing; Railway strike; ''Knot'' strike; plight of
agricultural workers.
Name: Taylor, Arnold D, fl 1913
Robarts, Agar, fl 1913
Clifden, Lord fl 1913
Place: Broadstone Dorset England
Notes: 5 folios written on one side only; 2-5 numbered in ink
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Letter from R Threlfall to Alfred Russel Wallace, from Edgbaston,
21 Mar 1899 re light and the blue colour of sea water, work by
Tyndall and Aitken, experiments with distilled water, scattering of
light by fine particles.
Name: Threlfall, Richard, 1861 - 1932, physicist and chemical
engineer
Tyndall, John, 1820-1893
Aitken, John, 1839-1919
Place: Edgbaston Birmingham West Midlands England
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Letter from Arthur Twidle, from Sidcup, 7 Jan 1913 to Alfred
Russel Wallace congratulating him on reaching his ninetieth
birthday.
Name: Twidle, Arthur, fl 1913
Place: Broadstone Dorset Sidcup Kent England
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Letter from Union of London Spiritualists, Muswell Hill, 9 Jan
1913, to Alfred Russel Wallace congratulating him on his 90th
birthday; signed Edgar Alcock-Rush, Hon.Sec.
Name: Union of London Spiritualists, fl 1913
Alcock, Edgar Rush-, fl 19113
Place: London
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