WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

with crosses in red or blue pencil against many entries; 3 small
folios written on one side only, the first and larger of the three
headed ''New Ideas'' briefly listing titles or major themes of some
of his works by date, beginning with 1858; the second also headed
''New Ideas'', numbered ''2'' and continuing the list at 1893; the
third headed ''Health ?(end of Chap.XXXIII)'' beginning ''Age - 6-
7 - Scarlet fever - Chap. IV''.
Notes: Dated on the assumption that the notes could have been
made while planning the book or during proofing. When listed
these were folded together with papers including lists of lectures
by Alfred Russel Wallace and letters, inside yellow paper folder
labelled in an unknown hand ''Xerox these'': folder destroyed
2003.
WP6/9 Papers re Is Mars Habitable?
Papers re Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1907, ''Is Mars Habitable'',
(Macmillan and Co. London 1907) including corrected proofs, a
letter and 2 envelopes in which papers were stored when listed.
WP6/9/1 Papers re Is Mars Habitable?
1. Proofs of ''Is Mars Habitable'' stamped 23 Oct 190[7], front
matter, preface and pp [1]-109, with corrections in Alfred Russel
Wallace's hand including inserted loose notes
2. Letter to Alfred Russel Wallace from J H Poynting, from
Ampton Rd, Edgbaston, Birmingham 19 Oct 1907 re the last
chapters, radiation and Martian canals
3. Stamped envelope addressed to Alfred Russel Wallace from
''The Auk'', Cambridge, Massachusetts USA, date illegible,
annotated on the back in Alfred Russel Wallace's? hand '' Is Mars
Habitable? | Author's corrected Proofs | (Prof Poynting's letter)''.
Name: Poynting, J H, born c.1853
Notes: All found when listed in a 1998 envelope (destroyed) with
apparently unrelated miscellanea including lists compiled by
WGW of Alfred Russel Wallace's library.
WP6/9/2 Papers re Is Mars Habitable?
Two uncut proofs of Alfred Russel Wallace. ''Is Mars Habitable'',
Macmillan and Co. London 1907, including title pages, table of
contents, two diagrams and 105 numbered pages of text in each.
Each copy consists of eight uncut sections arranged as duplicates -
i.e two copies of title pages and contents followed by two of
chapter 1, two of chapter 2, and so on. Each section is stamped ''1
Nov 1907 | From Robert Maclemose & Co Ld | University Press |
Anniesland | Glasgow''. The proofs are enclosed in a stamped
brown envelope postmarked from Glasgow with illegible date,
addressed to Alfred Russel Wallace at Broadstone, Wimborne, and
annotated on the back in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand ''Mars - 2
copies | clean proofs''. Both copies of page 48 are annotated in an
unknown hand with identical corrections, otherwise the pages are
clean.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916
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