WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

WP1/1/152 Letters to William Greenell Wallace
1 sheet folded and written on two sides in Mrs Richard Wallace's
hand as follows:
Letters from A.R. Wallace to his son W.G. Wallace June 1889
June 1911 & 2pcs.
Letter no 42. Ref treatment of smallpox | reprint of Malay
Archipelago | vaccination
Letter No 44 Donkey & Cart | Plants from Sir Thomas Hanbury
Letter No 29 Househunting! | Beaconsfield | Nr Owens House -
The Grange | 70 acre estate with potential!
November 1900 (Alfred Russel Wallace aged 77?)
Letter no 26 Alfred Russel Wallace giving instructions to his son
William !! aged 29!!
Letter No 78 (text ends here)
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, William Greenell, born 1871
Place: Dorset England
WP1/1/153 Letters to William Greenell Wallace
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his son William from
Parkstone, Dorset, 2 Dec 1892, re arrival of William's letter, his
lodgings and work for Mr Laukert?; method of calculation of
weight and volume of water; William's sister Violet; unexpected
visit from the Bishop of Salisbury (''quite a jolly old cock'') and
Mrs Usherwood, conversing about Stonehenge and Canon
Swayne's alpine garden; encloses card (not present) re William's
(engineering?) certificate and medal.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, William Greenell, born 1871
Wallace, Violet Isabel?, born 1869
Laukert?, fl 1892
Notes: This letter when received was in a paper folder labelled in
WGW's? hand ''General - domestic &c'' with one to Annie
Wallace; these were almost certainly selected by or for James
Marchant for use in writing ''Alfred Russel Wallace Family Papers
- Letters and Reminiscences'' (1916) and have been relocated.
WP1/1/154 Letters to William Greenell Wallace
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his son William from
Parkstone, Dorset, 2 Nov 1890 re William's studies, fees and diet;
rain delaying work on house but tiling of roof begun and emptying
of cesspit for laying of drains arranged, Railway bank cuts off
natural drainage, details of drainage plan; Violet going to London
after Christmas, Madame Michaelis leaving Croydon to set up a
(teacher) training college near a kindergarten in Notting Hill;
postcard re civil service ticket enclosed (not present).
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913arw
Wallace, William Greenell, born 1871
Wallace, Violet Isabel?, born 1869
Hudson, ?, fl 1890
Jennings, ?, fl 1890
Michaelis, Madame, fl 1889
43
undated
2 Dec 1892
2 Nov 1890
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