WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Except where pages were obviously loose, only front and back
pages of each section were checked when listing. For convenience
of location each proof section has been numbered in pencil in
square brackets with the piece reference code and a section
number, but these are NOT intended to be classed as separate
pieces and have NOT been separately recorded.
WP6/8/25 Papers re autobiography My Life
1. Incomplete printed page proofs annotated and corrected in
Alfred Russel Wallace's hand, of his autobiography ''My Life''
vol. 2, comprising front matter and pages [1] - 96; 209-216; 227-
332; 339-350; and 361-418 (last page). Intervening pages (a total
of 164) and index are missing. Some sheets consist of single folios
(one printed page per side) others folded folios of four pages in
sixteen page sections. Sections are stamped with dates from 6 Sep
1905 to 2 Oct 1905, all but three stamped ''First Proof''; front
matter and addendum ''[first] Revise 2 Oct 1905; pages 65-96
''[second] Revise 26 Sep 1905.'' Some proof pages belonging to
vol. 1 have been relocated (See WP6/8/23).
2. Stamped brown envelope addressed to Alfred Russel Wallace at
Broadstone (Dorset) from ''The Fortnightly Review'', London,
postmarked 14 Sep [1905], annotated on the back in blue pencil in
Alfred Russel Wallace's? hand ''Proofs | Vol 2'', which contained
these proofs when listed.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Notes: Individual sections and pages NOT marked with reference
or section numbers because of the large number of missing pages.
WP6/8/26 Papers re autobiography My Life
1. Printed page proofs of Alfred Russel Wallace's autobiography
''My Life'', revised 1 volume edition, (London 1908) in dated
sections with corrections and annotations in Alfred Russel
Wallace's hand, 4? Jun - 5 Oct 1908. Title page - p. xii; pp.[1] -
408. Complete text including integral illustrations but no proofs of
''facing page'' illustrations. All sections stamped ''First Proof
[date]'' except except the first (title -p. xii) which is stamped ''1st]
Revise 5 Oct 1908''.
2. Board labelled in Alfred Russel Wallace's? hand ''My Life | Set
of Proofs.''
Notes: Held between coarse acidic boards back and front and tied
with string when listed. Only the front board, with Alfred Russel
Wallace's annotation, retained. Proofs have not been checked for
duplicates or omissions and sections have not been numbered.
WP6/8/27 Papers re autobiography My Life
1.Letter from W L Shirra to Alfred Russel Wallace from Port
Street Stirling (Scotland), 8 Feb 1899, with names and some
details of members of a Wallace family in the Stirling area c.1748-
1864; 2 ff.
2. Envelope annotated ''Shirra's information I re Wallace family in
Stirling''
3. Sheet of notes in an unknown hand, possibly that of the Rev
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