WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

18. Proof illustration in black and white of two fish, the top image
captioned in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand ''Cichlostoma severum.
Fam Cichlidae. | (one third natural size)'' and the bottom ''Cynodon
scombroides. Fam. Characinidae (one fourth natural size.)''
19. Coarse acidic card folder labelled in Alfred Russel Wallace's
hand '''My Life' | Proofs of Illustrations | (not complete)''
Name: Wallace, Thomas Vere, died May 1843
Wallace, Mary Anne, born c 1789 died 1868
Wallace, William G, died c.1845
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, Herbert Edward, c 1829-1851
Place: Amazon Derbyshire England Essex Godalming Surrey
Leicester Leicestershire Shropshire Usk Wales
Notes: Proof pages approximately 23 cm x 17 cm. All illustrations
reproduced in Wallace, Alfred Russel, ''My Life'' (London 1905).
WP6/8/22 Papers re autobiography My Life
36 proofs of illustrations for A R Wallace's autobiography ''My
Life'' (London, Chapman & Hall, 1905) captioned in Alfred Russel
Wallace's and at least one other hand; incomplete set enclosed in
an exercise-book cover; comprising:
1. Printed illustration of a fish, from a drawing by Alfred Russel
Wallace. Captioned in an unknown hand in ink ''4. Plecostomus
guacari. Fam. Loricariidae. | (One third nat. size.) ''
2.Printed illustration of the valediction ''Thine in amity'' and
signature of Theodosius Purland, from a letter written by Purland
to Alfred Russel Wallace in 1870.
3 Proof illustration of the back of an envelope postmarked Apr 10
[1869].decorated with a cartoon by T. Purland showing a
mediaeval archer with a Bird-of -Paradise perched on his nose.
4. Proof illustration of a cartoon by T. Purland, headed ''Saturday!''
and showing a man in top hat and coat with a bag under one arm
and an [umbrella?] in the other hand, contemplating signs to
various places at the four corners of a compass
5. Proof illustration showing part of a letter and cartoon, with the
printed caption ''My Last Letter from Dr. Purland.'' The cartoon
shows a man with a knife in one hand holding a cat by its tail. The
proof sheet is stamped on the top left ''First Proof - 7 Sep 1905''
and annotated in ink in Alfred Russel Wallace's? hand ''My Life.
(Dr. Wallace)''.
6. Proof illustration of two fish, (an Angelfish and a Catfish) one
above the other, from drawings by Alfred Russel Wallace. The
top image is captioned ''5. Pterophyllum scalare.[sic] Fam.
Cichlidae. | (One third natural size.) '' and the bottom image ''3.
Pimelodus holomelus. Fam. Siluridae. | (One third natural size.)''
both in ink in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand.
7. Proof illustration of two fish, Cichlostoma severum and
Cynodon scombroides, one above the other, from drawings by
Alfred Russel Wallace. Captioned in ink in Alfred Russel
Wallace's hand.
8. Proof illustration of a fish, Xiphostoma lateristriga, from a
drawing by Alfred Russel Wallace. Captioned in ink in Alfred
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7 Sep 1905
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