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WP13 Hampden, J, papers re Flat Earth controversy 1871-1913 Printed papers, pamphlets and correspondence relating to Alfred Russel Wallace's acceptance of John Hampden's challenge in 1870 to prove the curvature of the earth by demonstrating the convexity of a body water for a wager and subsequent dispute over the result. Name: Hampden, John, fl 1870 Place: Downham Market Norfolk England See also Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his wife Annie from Washington DC 29 Jan 1887 (WP1/17/17) WP13/1 Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’ controversy Small cardboard folder apparently made from the cover of a book or notebook from which the original pages have been removed. Two titles on the spine in ink in Alfred Russel Wallace's and an unknown hand, obscured by torn paper: ''Bates on Delta of Amazon. Wall. on R Wagr . . .'' (remainder torn away) and, upside down relative to this and deleted, ''Asa Gray. Review of D...'' (remainder torn away). Titled on front cover in in in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand, over illegible text in blue pencil: ''Papers and Pamphlets by Carpenter and Parallax - also Hampden - Flat-Earth Man!'' Contents: Printed papers and pamphlets including material on Alfred Russel Wallace's acceptance of John Hampden's challenge to demonstrate the curvature of the earth and subsequent dispute. Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 Hampden, John Cockerell, Theodore Dru Allison, 1866-1948 Carpenter, William Birmingham, W. Cornish (''Parallax''), fl 1849 WP13/1/1 Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’ controversy Printed pamphlet titled ''Water, not convex: The Earth not a Globe! Demonstrated by Alfred R. Wallace Esq. on the 5th of March, 1870, by the old Bedford canal, near Downham Market, Norfolk.'' Written and published by William Carpenter, London 1871. 31 pages. Name: Carpenter, William Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 Hampden, John Place: Norfolk England WP13/1/2 Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’ controversy Printed pamphlet by Alfred Russel Wallace titled ''Reply to Mr. 326 1871-1913 1871 1871.11.00- 1871 WP13
Hampden's Charges against Mr. Wallace'' London, November 1871. 8 pages. Copy 1 of 4. Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 Hampden, John, fl 1870 Place: London England Norfolk WP13/1/3 Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’ controversy Printed pamphlet by Alfred Russel Wallace titled ''Reply to Mr. Hampden's Charges against Mr. Wallace'' London, November 1871. 8 pages. Copy 2 of 4. Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 Hampden, John, fl 1870 Place: London England Norfolk Notes: Pamphlet 2 of 4. WP13/1/4 Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’ controversy Printed pamphlet by Alfred Russel Wallace titled ''Reply to Mr. Hampden's Charges against Mr. Wallace'' London, November 1871. 8 pages. Copy 3 of 4. Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 Hampden, John, fl 1870 Place: London England Norfolk WP13/1/5 Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’ controversy Printed pamphlet by Alfred Russel Wallace titled ''Reply to Mr. Hampden's Charges against Mr. Wallace'' London, November 1871. 8 pages. Copy 4 of 4. Page 8 is marked with an asterisk in ink next to the word ''indictment'' and annotated at the foot of the page in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand with a note beginning ''Since then I have criminally indicted him''. Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 Hampden, John, fl 1870 Place: London England Norfolk WP13/1/6 Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’ controversy Printed pamphlet. 1 folio, headed ''Second issue of 500 | To A.R. Wallace, of Nutwood Cottage, Frith Hill, Godalming, Surrey'', by John Hampden, Balham (London) August 1885, charging Alfred Russel Wallace with cheating in their (1870) wager re the curvature of the earth. Annotated in the front left margin in (John Hampden's?) hand ''These are being [presently] circulated among all the clergy, magistrates, journalists, and private families in the county of Surrey. J. H''. Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 Hampden, John, fl 1870 Place: Godalming Surrey England Notes: The initials at the end of the annotation could be J.W. (J H 327 1871.11.00- 1871 1871.11.00- 1871 1871.11.00- 1871 1885.08.00- 1885 WP13
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The Natural History Museum General
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The Natural History Museum General
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Charles H Smith (Website: The Alfre
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Wallace, William Greenell, born 187
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WP1/1/11 Letters to William Greenel
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query as to the fate of a medal. Na
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William, water supply to house, arc
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Hanbury. Name: Wallace, Alfred Russ
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from Parkstone, Dorset, 15 June 190
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from Old Orchard, Broadstone (Dorse
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(A?) Bankes; enclosure to letter fr
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(autobiography?). Name: Wallace, Al
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WP1/1/112 Letters to William Greene
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side of a piece of linen paper appa
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Flora (Mitten). Name: Wallace, Alfr
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discovery of Spruce drawings by Mr
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Pinewood Sanatorium, Wokingham, Ber
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Wallace, Violet Isabel?, born 1869
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does William know whereabouts of st
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Notes: Annotated in blue pencil on
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annotated in pencil in WGW's? hand
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Purland, Theodosius, fl 1868 Place:
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Broadstone, Dorset, 3 Nov 1907 anno
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from Mrs Swinton for full names of
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Hooker, Hyacinthe Jardine (née Sym
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Wallace, Violet, born 1869 Marshall
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Place: Dorset England Notes: Annota
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''Natural Science''; Violet's caree
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in ''The Woman's Signal''; tea and
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Parkstone, Dorset 14 Jul 1894, re h
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Mitten, Mrs William, fl 1894 Reid,
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Notes: The Address referred to is '
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Hall, Marshall-, ?, died 1896 ?, El
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Torrens on spiritualism; Violet's K
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Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-
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WP1/2/93 Letters to Violet Wallace
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Place: Dorset England Notes: Origin
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Dunn, ? , Mr, fl 1898 Place: Americ
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Parkstone, Dorset 17 Jun 1901, re a
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WP1/3 Wallace Family Correspondence
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Wallace, Herbert Edward, c.1829-185
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Neath, 11 Apr 1846 re exchanging mo
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current scarcity of insects near Ne
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an unknown hand near the address: '
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emigrate to Australia; widow McCann
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WP1/3/36 Wallace Family Corresponde
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Macassar; comparison of data sent b
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Bates, Frederick, 1829-1903 Gray, D
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Hanbury, Daniel, 1848-1896? Place:
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WP1/3/67 BLANK RECORD: Item transfe
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WP1/3/80 Wallace Family Corresponde
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Place: Dorset England WP1/3/86 Wall
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WP1/4/3 Letters to Annie Mitten/Wal
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a box of plants collected including
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of?) grass. Name: Wallace, Alfred R
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WP1/5 Letters from the USA and Cana
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Mirlees, ?, fl 1886 Holmes, ?, fl 1
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natural history club meetings and c
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W. Holmes, O. W. Holmes, Jr., C. E.
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WP1/5/19 Letters from the USA and C
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Wallace's hand ''I sent letter with
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plans to visit Lake Tahoe and the S
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WP1/6 Letters from Fred Birch Lette
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Ottoni, Brazil, 5 May 1910 with rou
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Lepidoptera to Mr May in Rio; consi
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previous letter. (in envelope from
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WP1/8/4 Miscellaneous Correspondenc
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WP1/8/17 WP1/8/18 alleviation of po
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WP1/8/29 Miscellaneous Corresponden
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Name: Davieson, Charles, fl 1913 Pl
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Place: Broadstone Dorset Fleet Hamp
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pay him to travel the country selli
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WP1/8/106 Miscellaneous Corresponde
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Place: Broadstone Dorset Southampto
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Name: Wallace, William fl 1913 Plac
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Name: Yunck, Oscar Albert?, fl 1913
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Wallace were among Mitten and unrel
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WP2/2/1 Interviews and biographical
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French from Argus Suisse de la Pres
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Gazette, 7 Nov 1913 from Woolgar an
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WP2/3/29 Obituaries and Memoirs of
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WP2/3/41 Obituaries and Memoirs of
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Russel Wallace; a Ms chronology of
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1898.01.23 From Parkstone, Dorset 2
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published in some form in Marchant
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Name: Marchant, Sir James, 1867-195
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WP3 Diaries, notebooks and sketchbo
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notes possibly in Thomas Sims' hand
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p. 50; Names: L. N. (Land Nationali
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7. Attic Plan and Chamber Plan (of
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uilding bearing the sign ''Free Lib
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Alfred Russel Wallace's house at Br
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WP5 Land Nationalisation Society, p
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WP6 Papers re Publications: Books b
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WP6/4/1 Notes on 'Island Life' by C
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available in 1950 (Source: inventor
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2. Photographic print? approx. 14 c
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visible at top and bottom of the pr
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''chap. X''. Reproduced in vol 1, c
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showing a woman of Samoa; annotatio
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tribe, Central Australia, showing t
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Most proofs are dirty and have inky
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eginning on one side in ink over pe
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Sep and Oct 1887. Several letters f
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seated dog is partly visible; found
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WP6/8/4 Papers re autobiography My
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An enlargement of this photograph f
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3 Proof illustration in black and w
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Russel Wallace's hand. 9. Proof ill
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Wallace's. (See also WP6/8/19). 30.
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Except where pages were obviously l
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with crosses in red or blue pencil
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world of life. A manifestation of c
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Broadstone address is in pencil on
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WP6/11/12 Papers re Social environm
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WP7 Papers re Publications: Short w
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- Darwin/Wallace | Box 3 Box file''
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WP7/19 ''List of Birds from the Sul
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Bibliography, S96). See Smith for d
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Crescent, Regent's Park, N.W.'' at
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6. 1880. Press cuttings from ''The
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lined on the other with printed div
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Page 281 and 282: Wallace's hand ''Nat. Science | Aug
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from T D A Cockerell, Boulder Calif
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Place: London England Notes: Former
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Redwood, and seated woman View of t
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Jeens, C H, fl 1873 Fergus, ?, fl 1
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square, centred on a sheet of paper
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WP17/8/4 ''Views from Puy NugÃ¨re
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and in the background. Undated. Pos
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artist Marie Spartali in 1871, the
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Notes: In envelope labelled ''Photo
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Bates, assuming E F Bates to be his
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WP18/11 Label ''Wallace | Evolution
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death. Name: Bradley, Dennis, fl 19
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amphibia 2. 28 Aug 1891 re correcti
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