WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

cover includes review quotes including one by ''S.L.H.'' which is
annotated with an asterisk and a note in Alfred Russel Wallace's?
hand ''This was written as a joke''.
Name: Breach, Ebenezer, fl 1871?
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727
Notes: Dated on the basis that the wager of the curvature of the
earth occurred in 1870. Other possibilities include 1885 or 1886,
when John Hampden was acting against Alfred Russel Wallace.
RECORD MODIFIED 24/7/03 CLASS TITLE
WP13/1/11 Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’
controversy
Letter paper printed with the address Old Orchard, Broadstone,
Wimborne, with ''Spiritualism | Wallace v. Carpenter | Hampden's
& Flat-Earth Experiments - I &c. &c. '' written on the first page in
Alfred Russel Wallace's? hand in ink.
Name: Carpenter, William
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Hampden, John
Place: Dorset Norfolk England
Notes: This was found loose among unrelated papers in WP1 and
has been inserted here - it is presumably a file title page for the
item.
WP13/1/12 Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’
controversy
Printed pamphlet. 1 folio, headed ''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 ink in the bottom right corner on the first page ''RW
18.8.85''; two minor corrections in pencil on the second page.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Hampden, John, fl 1870
Place: Godalming Surrey England
Notes: Found in box 3 with unrelated papers and inserted here. See
WP13/1/6 for another copy.
WP13/1/13 Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’
controversy
Printed pamphlet (part?), undated, on the Flat Earth wager, 1 f
headed on one side ''The Most Startling Topic of the Day!'' and on
the other ''The Following is addressed to a Member of the Royal
Geographical Society … What is a Swindler?…''
Name: Hampden, John, fl 1870
Notes: Formerly in unlabelled wallet of miscellaneous unrelated
papers
WP13/1/14 Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’
controversy
Letter to Annie Wallace from John Hampden Croydon Dec 6, no
329
1871
1885.08.18-
1885
1885?
1886.12.06?-
1886?
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