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WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

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Life''. 3 numbered ff. approx. 33 cm x 20.5 cm with brass paper<br />

clip.<br />

Name: <strong>Wallace</strong>, William Greenell, 1871-1951<br />

Notes: See <strong>WP</strong>2/6/2/. Though the hand here is smaller it's possible<br />

both tables are by the same person, though one may be by WGW<br />

and one by VIW. Neither hand resembles that of James Marchant.<br />

<strong>WP</strong>2/6/2/3 Chronology and outline of ARW's life<br />

Rough undated notes in ink in an unknown hand re <strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong><br />

<strong>Wallace</strong>'s experiences in the Malay Archipelago, beginning ''1854<br />

went to the Malay Archipelago - a part of the world quite<br />

unknown then - and full of the most wonderful birds and insects.''<br />

2 pp. on 2 ff.<br />

<strong>WP</strong>2/6/3 Reminiscences, letters, drafts and related papers<br />

Originals and copies of reminiscences of <strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong> <strong>Wallace</strong><br />

by family, friends and colleagues, with related correspondence and<br />

papers including copies of some letters by him and a reprint in<br />

which Friula wallacii, a spider named after him, is described; most<br />

or all published or referred to in Marchant (1916).<br />

<strong>WP</strong>2/6/3/1 Reminiscences, letters, drafts and related papers<br />

Letter to Violet <strong>Wallace</strong> from Rev O. Pickard-Cambridge, from<br />

[Bloxworth] Rectory, Wareham, 15 Dec 1913, re the spider Friula<br />

wallacii named by him after her father <strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong> <strong>Wallace</strong>,<br />

enclosing a reprint inscribed to her on the front cover; of his paper<br />

''On some new and little-known spiders'' from Proc. Zool. Soc.<br />

Lond. 15 Dec 1896 including description and figure of F. wallacii;<br />

paper slip with instructions to Xerox letter and p. 1006 which may<br />

be in WGW's or another hand; envelope addressed to Miss<br />

<strong>Wallace</strong> at Old Orchard. Broadstone, postmarked 15 Dec 1913.<br />

Name: Cambridge, Octavius Pickard, fl 1896<br />

<strong>Wallace</strong>, Violet Isabel 1869-1945<br />

Place: Wareham Dorset England<br />

Notes: In a modern (1998) envelope of unrelated miscellanea<br />

including proofs of ''Is Mars Habitable'' when listed; paper slip<br />

enclosed in reprint in an unknown hand ''Xerox only letter & p.<br />

1006 total of 2 exposures if possible.'' See note to <strong>WP</strong>6/5/4 (<br />

Proofs of <strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong> <strong>Wallace</strong>'s ''Darwinism, an exposition....'')<br />

re Xerox process and speculative dates.<br />

<strong>WP</strong>2/6/3/2 Reminiscences, letters, drafts and related papers<br />

Letter from Miss E? Macdonald to Violet <strong>Wallace</strong> from<br />

Broomhill, Sheffield 19 Jan 1914 enclosing copies in Miss<br />

Macdonald's hand of seven letters from <strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong> <strong>Wallace</strong> to<br />

her, 1898-1912, may have time to copy more later in the term;<br />

envelope addressed in Miss Macdonald's hand to Violet <strong>Wallace</strong>,<br />

Old Orchard Broadstone, Dorset, stamped, postmarked Sheffield<br />

20 Jan 1914; annotated on the front in ink in another hand<br />

(WGW's?) ''A.R.W. to Miss Macdonald''.<br />

Copy letters comprise:<br />

196<br />

[1914-1915]<br />

[1913-1916]<br />

15 Dec 1913<br />

1898-1914<br />

<strong>WP</strong>2

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