WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

And Beethoven? ); portrait of a child writing by candle light;
landscapes, decorative details of buildings. Book approx 18.5 cm x
14 cm with pink and grey marbled paper cover sewn on without
spine, about 20 pages, most with protective tissue interleaved.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, Herbert Edward, c 1829-1851
WP3/3 Address and Note book
Small lined and ruled notebook with ''Addresses'' faintly visible on
front cover and the remains of a brass clasp on back and front
boards; containing very approximately personal and corporate
names and addresses in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand, with a few
printed address lists and labels pasted onto some pages and onto
the inside front cover, and lists of people to whom various Alfred
Russel Wallace publications or letters were sent (detailed below).
Addresses are in alphabetical order by name but divided into
categories, (by year?) so that there is more than one section A-Z.
Addresses pasted in include a list in newsprint of newspaper
offices in London, on the flyleaf underneath a list in Alfred Russel
Wallace's hand headed ''Paintings''.
Twelve pages at the back of the book contain gardening notes
written upside down relative to the front pages and beginning on
the last page of the book. These are a calendar of flowering plants
at the Dell, April-May 1873 and 1875, (143-141) list of Cape
(South African) heaths each with botanical name, description and
time of flowering, (pp. 139-131) and a diagram of plantings c.
1889-1890 (p. 130).
A loose business card from Parsons & Hayter, Builders and Estate
Agents of Swanage and Wareham, is enclosed between pp 63 and
64.
The notebook is approximately 16cm x 9cm, approximately 120
pages, of which 12 between the address and gardening notes
section are blank.
Notes which are not, or not simply, address lists are:
p. 19: Names: Dec 1879, written to about result of Epping Forest
Competition.
p. 20: Names: To send nationalisation circular (list undated)
pp. 39-40: Names: Land Nationalisation bound and paper copies
sent to.(At the top of p. 40 is a note of ''Diagrams on black calico
by Geo. A. Rea [sic]'')
p. 41: includes a list of Guildford newspapers.
p. 42: includes a list of gardeners
pp. 43-44: Probable income during 1886-7-8,and Fixed outgoings
p.45: Names: Large photos (Portrait?) sent to.
pp. 46-47: American addresses (other American addresses occur in
the alphabetical sections)
p. 48: Miscellaneous U. K names and addresses not in alphabetical
order, including V.C. special committee of London Society for the
abolition of vaccination.
pp. 49-50: Names: Darwinism sent to
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[1873]-[1913]
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