WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Place: Plaistow West Sussex
WP16/2 Wallace W G and V I correspondence re gifts of ARW's effects
Correspondence c.1915 -1951 between William and Violet Wallace
and various societies and museums re gifts of Alfred Russel
Wallace letters and artefacts, in white paper folder annotated on the
front in ink in WGW's hand ''Letters & Acknowledgments relating
to gifts to various museums & societies.''
Correspondents include the British Museum, BMNH, Pitt Rivers
Museum, the Linnean Society, the Royal Society, Royal
Geographical Society and Royal Botanic Gardens Kew; a number
have copies or draft replies in WGW's hand on the back.
Papers have been arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent
and then by date, apparently the order created by William Greenell
Wallace, though some letters from the British Museum found loose
have been inserted.
Name: Wallace, William Greenell, 1871-1951
Wallace, Violet Isabel 1869-1945
Notes: WP16/2/15A, missed in sorting, has been so numbered
because associated with the previous record, rather than moving it
out of sequence to the end of the list. PJL 26/1/04
WP16/2/1 Wallace W G and V I correspondence re gifts of ARW's effects
Printed pamphlet, ''Return | British Museum 1918'' HMSO May
1918, financial report including lists of significant donations 1917;
reports on p. 22 of the donation in 1917 to the BMNH of two Ms
notebooks in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand on specimens, ''chiefly
insects'' collected in the Malay Archipelago.
Name: British Museum, founded 1753
Place: Malaya
Notes: P. 22 reports on the donation in 1917 to the BMNH of two
Ms notebooks in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand on specimens,
''chiefly insects'' collected in the Malay Archipelago.
WP16/2/2 Wallace W G and V I correspondence re gifts of ARW's effects
Letter to William Greenell Wallace from Department of Oriental
Antiquities and of Ethnography, British Museum, London 26 Jul
1935 re WGW's offer to present to the Museum specimens collected
by Alfred Russel Wallace, and arrangements for their collection; list
in ink in WGW's hand headed ''Objects sent by parcel post Aug 1''
includes figures, spoons, wooden charms and a coconut scoop, all
from Dorey, human hair from Timor and an axe and comb from the
Amazon.
Name: British Museum Department of Oriental Antiquities and
Ethnography
Place: Dorey New Guinea Amazon
WP16/2/3 Wallace W G and V I correspondence re gifts of ARW's effects
Letter to William Greenell Wallace from Department of Oriental
Antiquities and of Ethnography, British Museum, London 5 Aug
1935 re safe arrival of objects from the Amazon and Indonesia sent
on 1 Aug.
363
1915?-1951
1917-1918
26 July 1935
1935.08.05-
1935
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