WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

correspondence, proof text and illustrations, original photographs
and sketches, and reviews. See press cuttings, WP14, for further
reviews.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
WP6/8/1 Papers re autobiography My Life
Sheets in Alfred Russel Wallace's? hand headed ''List of Books
and papers by Alfred R. Wallace'', 4p (2 folios) old thin lined
paper.
Notes: Although in the third person and possibly written by WGW
for Marchant, this looks much more like Alfred Russel Wallace's
own hand and has been assigned accordingly. PJL Nov 2003
WP6/8/2 Papers re autobiography My Life
1 folio lined exercise paper in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand
headed ''Papers before 1862'' listing papers published by him with
a note of the number of his articles and books up to 1862.
Notes: Assigned to this series because of the note, which suggests
he may have used the list for reference in writing the chapter on
his literary work; however this is speculation.
WP6/8/3 Papers re autobiography My Life
Four loose folios of notes in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand, with
dates and brief descriptions of letters to him from Charles Darwin,
in an envelope from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, postmarked on
the back 13 Dec 1904, addressed to Wallace and annotated in his
hand in ink on the back ''Darwin's letters used in my
Autobiography.'' This annotation has been crossed through in
pencil and the following further annotations in pencil in another
hand (WGW's?) added: '' Alfred Russel Wallace's notes | &
Darwin notes on ''Island Life'' - 6 f pages | & letters of Alfred
Russel Wallace to Mr Pascoe - written from Celebes & Batchian.''
Only Alfred Russel Wallace's notes re Darwin's letters are now in
the envelope.
The folios are begin (1): ''Darwin's Letters | 1864 May. About
paper on 'Man' ...''
(2) ''Darwin's Letters. | 1871. Jan 30th. About Descent of man ...''
(3) ''Darwin to me in Life & Letters. | June 1876 - On my Geog
Distribution ...''
(4) ''Notes. | Darwin to Hooker - Feb 1881 ...''
Dated from the envelope postmark and evidence in letters from
Alfred Russel Wallace to his family in 1904 mentioning work on
his autobiography.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882
Notes: At least one of the letters listed, re the colour of
caterpillars, is quoted in vol. 2 of ''My Life'' so it is a reasonable
assumption that this list DOES refer to quotes used in or
considered for, Alfred Russel Wallace's autobiography despite the
deletion on the envelope.
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