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<strong>The</strong> Natural History Museum General Library Manuscripts Section<br />

<strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong> <strong>Wallace</strong> Family Papers<br />

c1790 – 2000<br />

<strong>WP</strong><br />

<strong>The</strong> collection includes personal and related family papers, correspondence, accounts of<br />

expenditure, publisher's proofs, reprints, photographs, certificates, pamphlets, press-cuttings,<br />

lecture notes and obituaries. <strong>The</strong> correspondence includes letters from Richard Spruce, and<br />

letters written by <strong>Wallace</strong> to his family from Canada, c. 1886-1887, to his son William c.<br />

1889-1911, to his daughter Violet, to Herbert Walter Bates, and to the Clarion newspaper.<br />

Siblings with whom he corresponded or who mentioned in these papers include older brothers<br />

William G [George] (died c. 1845), John (c.1819-1895) older sisters Eliza (died 1832) and<br />

Frances (Fanny, Mrs Thomas Sims; died 1893) and younger brother Herbert Edward (c.1829-<br />

1851).<br />

<strong>WP</strong>1 <strong>Correspondence</strong> c. 1838-1913<br />

<strong>WP</strong>2 Biographical Material and Portraits c. 1850?-1916<br />

<strong>WP</strong>2/6 Papers re James Marchant's "Letters and Memoirs . . ." [1881] c. 1913-1916<br />

<strong>WP</strong>3 Diaries, Notebooks and Sketchbooks c. 1846-1893 and undated<br />

<strong>WP</strong>4 Houses and architecture, papers re c. 1871-1912<br />

<strong>WP</strong>5 Land Nationalisation Society, papers re: c. 1881-1901<br />

<strong>WP</strong>6 Papers re Publications: Books by <strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong> <strong>Wallace</strong> c. 1869?-1913<br />

<strong>WP</strong>7 Papers re Publications: Short works by <strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong> <strong>Wallace</strong> with some related<br />

papers c. 1853-1913<br />

<strong>WP</strong>8 Spruce, Richard, papers; and annotated print and papers re edition of "Notes of a<br />

Botanist" c. 1866?-1908<br />

<strong>WP</strong>9 Lectures, Papers re: c. 1863?-1909<br />

<strong>WP</strong>10 Physiography examinations, papers re: c. 1870-1897<br />

<strong>WP</strong>11 Darwin Centenary, papers re: c.1908-1909<br />

<strong>WP</strong>12 Short works by authors other than <strong>Wallace</strong> c. 1790-1914<br />

<strong>WP</strong>13 Hampden , J, papers re (Flat Earth controversy) c. 1871-1886<br />

<strong>WP</strong>14 Press Cuttings c. 1885-1910<br />

<strong>WP</strong>15 Mitten, William, Papers c. 1853-1907 [1988]<br />

<strong>WP</strong>16 <strong>Wallace</strong>, William Greenell, and <strong>Wallace</strong>, Violet Isabel, papers c. 1913-1951<br />

<strong>WP</strong>17 Miscellaneous Photographs and other images c. 1850?-1913? and undated<br />

<strong>WP</strong>18 Miscellanea c. 1810? -2000? and undated<br />

<strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong> <strong>Wallace</strong> (1823-1913) traveller and naturalist, independently of but at the same<br />

time as, Charles Darwin, identified Natural Selection as the key to evolutionary change.<br />

<strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong> <strong>Wallace</strong> was born on January 8th, 1823, near the town of Usk in<br />

Monmouthshire, to Thomas Vere <strong>Wallace</strong> (died May 1843) and Mary Anne <strong>Wallace</strong> (née<br />

Greenell; died 15 November 1868). <strong>The</strong> family moved to Hertford, Essex, in about 1826.<br />

<strong>The</strong>ir father, originally a gentleman of independent means and a non-practicing solicitor, lost<br />

money in unsuccessful financial speculation and took up a series of low-paid jobs, and the<br />

family moved several times for economic reasons.<br />

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