WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Name: Marchant, Sir James, 1867-1956, Knight
Notes: When listed this was included in a large modern (1995)
envelope (destroyed) labelled in RW (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''.
WP2/6/5/4 Marchant Miscellanea
Brown envelope approximately 25cm X 20cm, used as outer
wrapping for bundled letters written by Alfred Russel Wallace
from USA and Canada as delivered for listing. A wide strip has
been torn away from the front, which is divided into four squares
in blue pencil, annotated in an unknown hand ''Registered'' and
addressed to W G Wallace, Esq, Old Orchard, Broadst
(Broadstone) Dor (Dorset). Part of the address is missing at the
tear. Of three postmarks on the front two are illegible; one is
Wimb[orne] (Wimborne?) 10 Jul (1916?). Beneath the postmarks
is an annotation in pencil in WGW's? hand : '' Alfred Russel
Wallace's U.S.A. letters | Copied Aug/15''.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Place: Wimborne Dorset England
WP2/6/5/5 Marchant Miscellanea
1. Index and list of correspondence between Alfred Russel
Wallace and Charles Darwin, 1 p. TS headed ''Index to Darwin
Wallace Letters'' with dates of letters to and from Wallace listed
in two columns, some with brief notes on content; annotated in
pencil in WGW's hand.
2. Five numbered ff. CC headed ''List of the Darwin - Wallace
Letters'', with columns headed ''C.D. to A.R.W'' and ''A.R.W to
C.D.'' listing letters by date with pencilled lines connecting some
letters; some with abbreviated page and volume references to
''M.Lt.'' (Marchant Letters and Reminiscences 1916?) and/or ''L &
L'' (Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, 1905?) or ''My L'' (My
Life, Alfred Russel Wallace's autobiography 1905?)
3. 2 ff rough Ms notes in pencil in WGW's? hand listing dates of
Darwin -Wallace correspondence in the style of the CC above,
pages numbered 1-4, with an unfinished paragraph in ink on p. 4
re Darwin's ''Variation of Animals and Plants''.
Name: Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882
Notes: When listed was included in a 1998 envelope (destroyed)
with some apparently unrelated miscellanea including proofs of ''Is
Mars Habitable''; post-it note label in Richard Wallace's hand
included ''Lists compiled by WGW''
WP2/6/5/6 Marchant Miscellanea
1. List of Alfred Russel Wallace's correspondents by type with
notes re some of Alfred Russel Wallace's letters, undated, in
William Greenell Wallace's hand; in columns on fourteen folios
of lined paper; approximately eight hundred names in rough
alphabetical order within the categories:
201
[1916]
[1916]
[1902-1916]
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