WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

square, centred on a sheet of paper approximately 19.5 cm x 28 cm.
From a photograph by Van der Wede.
Presented to the subscribers to ''Nature'' 5 Jun 1884.
Name: Siemens, Sir Charles William, 1823-1883, Knight
Stodart, G J, fl 1882
Van der Weyde, P H, fl 1871
WP17/5/23 Brown paper folder labelled ''Nature Portraits''
Brown paper folder labelled in pencil in Alfred Russel Wallace's? or
his son William's? hand ''Nature Portraits'' and annotated in ink at
right angles in an unknown hand ''By Passenger Train | Carriage
Paid''. This folder enclosed the 22 portraits of scientists issued by
''Nature'' 18873-1884, WP17/5/1-22
Notes: Dirty and acidic. Put into a melinex sleeve to protect the top
and bottom prints and placed in the acid-free envelope with them.
END LIST WP/2/8
WP17/6 Arena Gallery of Eminent Thinkers
''The Arena Gallery of Eminent Thinkers''; pale blue (grey on with
dirt on the outside but true colour shows on the folds) embossed
paper folder so titled in decorative print (possibly by hand) with
black ribbon tie, enclosing 40 loose leafed printed portrait
photographs of eminent people with their autographs, including
Alfred Russel Wallace; with contents page listing portraits by name
and number within the categories Poets, Clergymen, Women, Young
American Writers, Men of Letters and Scientists and Philosophers,
published by the Arena Publishing Co, Boston, Mass. (USA),
undated; all apparently present but not in numerical order; portrait of
Alfred Russel Wallace aged about 60 is on top followed by Charles
Darwin in old age.
Notes: Date based on dates of some of the ''Young American
Writers'', born c, 1860s and apparently aged mid-twenties or thirties
in portraits, and apparent age of Alfred Russel Wallace in portrait.
WP17/7 Sketch for Argand Candle Lamp
Diagram in ink and pencil on grey/green letter paper approximately
18 cm x 12 cm, headed in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand ''Sketch for
Argand Candle Lamp'' and signed on the left Alfred R Wallace | Dec
1899, showing parts including spring, air filter, cylindrical candle
and wick.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Notes: Torn on bottom edge to left of centre. See letter to Violet
Wallace 24 Nov 1897 (WP1/2/96) mentioning this device.
WP17/8 Photos of geological features
Ten undated photographic images of geological features or
landscape, with annotated envelope.
Name: Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish, 1877-1947
Notes: Dates of some inferred from period when Alfred Russel
Wallace was in Switzerland. No source or publication identified, but
385
undated
1885?-1890?
Dec 1899
1893?-1893?
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