WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Nicholson, William Edward, 1866-1945
WP15/3/5 Sepia photo of elderly man, apparently William Mitten
Portrait: Small faded sepia photo undated and without annotations,
of an elderly man with short white beard, apparently William
Mitten but possible Alfred Russel Wallace, seated at a bench in a
greenhouse, facing camera, seen through the open door of the
building.
Name: Mitten, William, 1819-1906
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
WP15/4 Mitten papers: Ephemera
Ephemera associated or apparently associated with William Mitten
comprising a plant specimen and a postcard view of land near
Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex
Name: Mitten, William, 1819-1906
WP15/4/1 Loose dried plant (grass) specimens (Apera species?)
Loose dried plant (grass) specimens (Apera species?) contained in
a brown envelope 23 cm x 14.5cm, addressed to Mr W Mitten,
Chemist, Hurstpierpoint Hassocks RSO Essex. The envelope is
printed with illustrations of three types of (bottle-stoppers?), bears
a half-penny stamp and is heavily postmarked ''T | NPO'' with no
visible date. It is annotated on the back in pencil in an unknown
hand ''Apera | Sandpit I Hassocks | July 1904.''
Name: Mitten, William, 1819-1906
Place: Hassocks West Sussex England
Notes: The envelope is brittle and has been pierced by the dry
grass stem in at least one place. If kept, the specimen(s) should
probably be glued into an to acid free folder.
WP15/4/2 Postcard, sepia photo captioned ''Cowdray. Hurstpierpoint | J.
Booker Series''
Postcard; undated black and white /sepia photo showing a divided
driveway and iron barred gate with a distant view of wooded
fields; captioned in white ''Cowdray. Hurstpierpoint | J. Booker
Series''; possibly view from or of the grounds of Cowdray House,
the country seat of Lord Cowdray; there is no writing on the
reverse.
Name: Mitten, William, 1819-1906
Booker, J, fl ?
Place: Hurstpierpoint West Sussex
Notes: Placed in this series because of the address, presumably
near the Mitten house; with a small collection of apparently
unrelated photos and postcards of varying dates, (all old ref
WP2/51) when listed.
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1905?
1904.07.00
July 1904
undated
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