WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Walsh?) J.H. (John Hampden) or J.M., but the writing appears to
be John Hampden's. The pamphlet is described in box list as
''Hampden's Accusation.''
WP13/1/7 Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’
controversy
Printed pamphlet, 8 pages on one folio, partly cut (or torn),
headed ''For distribution at the Exhibition of Geographical
Appliances, 53, Great Marlborough Street, Regent Street,
December 1885'', including advertisements for publications on the
flat-earth theory, and an article by John Hampden on the failure of
geography and physics teaching in England, headed ''To be - or to
seem? To know - or think we know? Are we not living in an age
of shams?''.
Name: Hampden, John, fl 1870
Place: London England
WP13/1/8 Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’
controversy
Printed pamphlet, 8 pages, titled ''John Hampden's letter to
Professor Huxley, President of the Royal Society ... Suggested by
his article in the Nineteenth Century, for December, 1895, in reply
to Mr. Gladstone's comments on the book of Genesis.'' London,
1886? Annotated in pencil on the front in (John Hampden's?) hand
''A.R.W. is (two illegible words) referred to.'' The hand is the same
as that on the printed address by Hampden to Alfred Russel
Wallace of August 1885. Some sections of the text have been
marked in red pencil.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Hampden, John, fl 1870
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
Place: London England
WP13/1/9 Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’
controversy
Printed announcement by John Hampden, of Balham, Surrey, of
default by A R Wallace of a debt of honour. Three spaces left for
the insertion of the name of the defaulter have been filled in (John
Hampden's) hand with the name ''A R Wallace'', ''A.R.W'' and ''A
Wallace''. Part of the text has been underlined and annotated in the
margin in (Alfred Russel Wallace's?) hand ''? | Proofs''.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Hampden, John, fl 1870
Place: London England Norfolk
WP13/1/10 Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’
controversy
Printed pamphlet, undated, titled ''The Universal Challenge to
Unnatural Science! Twenty Reasons against Newtonianism with
Geographical Proofs that the earth is an extended plane. By
Ebenezer Breach, natural astronomer and poet . . .'' 16 pages. The
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1885.12.00-
1885
1886?-1886?
1885?-1885?
1871?-1871?
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