WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

published in some form in Marchant 1916: approximately 60
letters or extracts numbered internally, interleaved with pages
headed ''Home Life [no.]'' containing short reminiscences of
Alfred Russel Wallace apparently by William and Violet Wallace:
approximately 200 A4 folios including:
''Reminiscences of A.R. Wallace O.M. by Reginald B Rathbone'';
TS carbon copies each five numbered folios A4.
Reminiscences of Alfred Russel Wallace by O Pickard-
Cambridge, H E Littledale and J W Sharpe
Letters and extracts of letters from Alfred Russel Wallace to his
daughter Violet, his son William, his wife Annie, Dr Richard
Norris, Miss Norris, Dr Littledale and Fred Birch, 1891-c 1908;
two cc of each on A4 paper.
Name: Rathbone, Reginald B, 1895-1987
Notes: When listed these were in a large modern (1995) envelope
(destroyed) labelled in Richard Wallace's (and Mrs R Wallace's? )
hands ''Typed letters Alfred Russel Wallace to Violet and Will |
Reminiscences of R B Rathbone | [Ditto] WG & VI for Marchants
Book''. Most duplicated letters exist in the original in this
collection but some, including extracts from a letter by Alfred
Russel Wallace to Fred Birch and letters to Richard Norris and Dr.
Littledale, have not been found in the original here.
WP2/6/4 Marchant Publisher's Papers
Papers of Cassell & Co. Ltd, publishers, re the publication and sale
of James Marchant, ''Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and
Reminiscences'' (1916. Cassell & Co. Ltd., London, New York,
Toronto and Melbourne)
Name: Cassell and Co. Ltd., Publishers
Marchant, Sir James, 1867-1956, Knight
WP2/6/4/1 Marchant Publisher's Papers
Printed advance notice, undated, of the forthcoming publication of
James Marchant, ''Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and
Reminiscences'' (March 1916. Cassell & Co. Ltd., London, New
York, Toronto and Melbourne) decorated with a small engraving
or woodcut portrait of Alfred Russel Wallace and including order
form.
Name: Cassell and Co. Ltd., Publishers
Marchant, Sir James, 1867-1956, Knight
WP2/6/5 Marchant Miscellanea
Miscellaneous papers apparently related to the creation and
publication of James Marchant, ''Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters
and Reminiscences'' including rough notes, labelled folders and an
envelope.
WP2/6/5/1 Marchant Miscellanea
Undated ms in ink in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand headed ''The
chief Humanitarians of the Nineteenth Century, in the opinion of
Alfred Russel Wallace'' listing 10 names beginning with Robert
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[1913-1916]
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