WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

pony ride up Bowfell, hotels, weather, scenery; rare ferns scarce,
alpines hard to find but included Saxifraga, Salix, Oxyria, Sedum,
Alchemilla and Thalectrum (species named); met daughter Violet
at Settle in Yorkshire, Geranium and Campanula in flower; details
of exotic plants flowering at home.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Mitten, William, 1819-1906
Wallace, Annie, née Mitten, born c.1846
Wallace, Violet Isabel?, born 1869
Place: Parkstone Dorset England Cumbria England
Notes: See old ref WP2/45; notes on this tour. The letter was in a
modern envelope labelled in Richard Wallace's hand ''Letters to
Annie, WGW etc (&?) From Fred Birch'' and seems more
appropriate here.
WP15/1/3 William Mitten to his daughter
Letter from William Mitten to his daughter (Annie W?) from
Hurstpierpoint, 9 Aug 1896, re her journey (to Switzerland?)
arrival and planting of flowers from her, the identity and growing
conditions of plants including pulsatilla, campanula, anemone
vernalis, anemone baldensis, and plants found around Zermatt, the
Rhone glacier and Wengern, asking her to collect seeds of any
dandelion-like plants and purple vetch; visit by aunts Sally and
Lizzy; new local burial grounds.
Name: Mitten, William, 1819-1906
Wallace, Annie, née Mitten, fl 1890
?, Sally, fl 1896
?, Lizzy, fl 1896
Place: Hurstpierpoint West Sussex Switzerland
Notes: When first listed this was were in a brown cardboard box in
the form of a book, titled ''Letters'' on spine, containing
miscellaneous apparently unrelated letters and photos; it seems
more appropriate here.
WP15/1/4 Clement Reid to William Mitten
Letter from Clement Reid to Mr (William) Mitten, from Deverel
Farm, Milborne St Andrew, Blandford, 8 Sep 1896, re rhizomes of
mosses; news from Ridley who has seen a white snake in Selangor
caves; Mitten's new Crepis species; Hieracia; will send Hoxne
Report from British Association meeting; enclosing two (of his)
Dorset papers, one relating to Blashenwell, the other not botanical.
Name: Reid, Clement, 1853-1916
Mitten, William, 1819-1906
Ridley, Henry Nicholas, 1855-1956
Place: Dorset England
WP15/1/5 ARW to William Mitten
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his father-in-law William
Mitten, from Parkstone, Dorset, 21 Jul 1897, re sending Jamaica
and Singapore moss; plants in flower in Alfred Russel Wallace's
pond and garden, letters from son William, who is working on a
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