WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

in the centre stone scrapers and arrowheads, marked into sections
in pencil. Sheet cut in half; the back is stamped in red with the
left-hand section of the stamp ''Walker & Boutall 16 Clifford's Inn
Fleet Street London'' and annotated in black in an unknown hand
''Wallace'' and ''Ja'', part of the text ''Wallaces Implements | 2670 |
Jany 13 1900'' on the full sheet ( see item 9 above); reproduced as
figs 5, 6, 8 and 10 vol. 2 pp. 41-43.
11. Proof illustration approximately 19 cm x 14 cm showing
various prehistoric implements (from drawings made by Alfred
Russel Wallace? at the National Museum, Washington) including
at bottom left the stylised figure of a llama, marked into sections
in pencil with annotations in ink in Alfred Russel Wallace's? hand
(ink over fainter printed image of writing) crossed through in ink.
The back is stamped in red ''Walker & Boutall 16 Clifford's Inn
Fleet Street London'' and annotated in black in an unknown hand
''Wallaces Implements | 2670 | Jany 13 1900''; reproduced as figs
19-24, vol. 2 pp. 49-52.
12.Proof illustration approximately 19 cm x 14 cm showing
various prehistoric implements (from drawings made by Alfred
Russel Wallace? at the National Museum, Washington) including
at top left stone spoons or cups viewed from above, marked into
sections in pencil. The back is stamped in red ''Walker & Boutall
16 Clifford's Inn Fleet Street London'' and annotated in black in an
unknown hand ''Wallaces Implements | 2670 | Jany 13 1900'';
reproduced in vol. 2 as figs 11and 12 (p 45) 13, 14 and 15 (p. 46)
and 16, 17 and 18 (p. 48).
13. Notes on a small squared paper sheet approx. 8 cm x 15 cm in
Alfred Russel Wallace's hand in ink over pencil beginning '' Pipes
human & animal form in Ohio & Illinois'', apparently notes on
specimens of native implements displayed in American Museums;
enclosed when listed in folder 1 of items 1-7 above.
14. Faint pencil sketches on both sides of a small squared paper
sheet approx. 8 cm x 15 cm: one side showing a stone knife?
captioned in pencil in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand ''Chipped
flint. Mound. Macon Co. W. Virginia'' and an axe head? decorated
with the figure of a man apparently killing a snake, captioned
''A[r]t. Coll. Cincinnati''; the other side showing a map or
geological diagram with strata? labelled ''hill of Loess'', ''loess''
and ''mid. drift gravel with pebbles'', captioned ''W. Sioux City''.
15. Notes on a small squared paper sheet approx. 8 cm x 15 cm in
Alfred Russel Wallace's hand in pencil and ink beginning on one
side in pencil ''Leaving Clifton Forge | 7 am | (1) Lowmoor - low
furnaces in rows'', apparently notes of a train trip through Virginia
and the views and geological features seen, with notes of time and
place including 8.40 at Fort Spring at the bottom of the page and
continuing increasingly illegibly overleaf where three sketches in
ink,of a stone arrowhead, hoe, and gouge, headed ''Occasional -
N.Y. Museum'' with notes, are upside down with relation to the
train journey notes. Enclosed when listed in folder 1 of items 1-7
above.
16. Notes and sketches on a small squared paper sheet approx. 8
cm x 15 cm in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand in pencil and ink
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