WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Wallace, Violet Isabel?, born 1869
Schulz, ?, fl 1898
Ackland, ?, fl 1898
Conway, Sir William Martin, 1856-1937, Baron Conway of
Allington
Reade, Charles 1814-1884
Casey, ?, Miss, fl 1913
Allman, George James, 1812-1898
Place: Parkstone Dorset England USA
Notes: OLD REF Correspondence 1879-1922: WP1/19/21
WP1/1/163 Letters to William Greenell Wallace
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace and his wife Annie to their son
William from Parkstone, Dorset, 15 Dec 1898 re William's news
(from the USA) that he has moved to better accommodation,
Alfred Russel Wallace thinks the dogs and cats there will keep
away any small mammals he wants to catch; sending a paper with
news of Conway's ascent of Mount Sorata in the Andes; sending
Black's ''Princess of Thule'' for WGW's birthday; ''Tommy Atkins''
now in a shilling edition; the author of ''Tomorrow'' (Ebenezer
Howard) has sent his book describing the ideal garden city, good
review in the ''Clarion'' but Alfred Russel Wallace fears the plan
will be suppressed by speculators; news of Tesla's experiments
with wireless telegraphy, claims he will work machinery in Paris
by power from Niagara; drains at house being connected,
problems, cost and method described; cleverness of ''Whatnot'' and
''Bezique'' in the ''Clarion''; reading Dangles? ''Old Cockaigne'';
detailed description of method of digging a trench, with planking
diagram, Colonel Nichols says tunnels in India made with box
frames (diagram); hopes William has got some skeletons by now.
Annie's postscript (unsigned) written at right angles to the text by
Alfred Russel Wallace, on the last page of the first of two folios,
sends William birthday and new year greetings, and news of local
Christmas shopping; plants in flower; photos from Ananda in
Ceylon, hopes he will return alive; sale of Ardmore (house).
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, Annie, née Mitten, born c.1846
Wallace, William Greenell, born 1871
Conway, Sir William Martin, 1856-1937, Baron Conway of
Allington
Black, William , 1841-1898
Howard, Sir Ebenezer, knight, 1850-1928
Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943
Nichols, ? fl 1891
Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish, 1877-1947
Place: Bolivia Ceylon Parkstone Dorset England USA
Notes: OLD REF Correspondence 1879-1922: WP1/19/22
WP1/1/164 Letters to William Greenell Wallace
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his son William from
Parkstone, Dorset, 23 Dec 1898 re drainage work on house; sale of
Dr Allman's house; detailed advice on where William and Mac
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