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<strong>Wallace</strong>, William Greenell, born 1871<br />

Curtis, Percy, fl 1901-1902<br />

Place: Broadstone Dorset England<br />

Notes: 2 folios. OLD REF Letters re houses and building:<br />

<strong>WP</strong>1/19/4/13<br />

<strong>WP</strong>1/1/180 Letters to William Greenell <strong>Wallace</strong><br />

Letter from <strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong> <strong>Wallace</strong> to his son William from<br />

Broadstone, Dorset, 12 Jan 1903 annotated in WGW's? hand<br />

''lecture | atoms''; re lecture by Osborne Reynolds on the nature of<br />

the universe, his explanation of gravity similar to Allen's; work on<br />

house and garden; reading books for material for his own book,<br />

(''Man's place in the Universe''?) hopes to get it out by summer;<br />

WGW's business in Ipswich and London.<br />

Name: <strong>Wallace</strong>, <strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong>, 1823-1913<br />

<strong>Wallace</strong>, William Greenell, born 1871<br />

Reynolds, Osborne, 1842-1912<br />

Perry, ?, fl 1903<br />

Thomson, William, Lord Kelvin, 1824-1907<br />

Allen, ?, fl 1903<br />

<strong>Wallace</strong>, Violet Isabel?, born 1869<br />

Place: Broadstone Dorset Ipswich Suffolk England London<br />

Notes: <strong>Wallace</strong>, <strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong> (1903), Man's Place in the<br />

Universe: A Study of the Results of Scientific Research in<br />

Relation to the Unity or Plurality of Worlds. (London, Chapman &<br />

Hall, Oct. 1903). OLD REF Letters re books and writing 1903-<br />

1907: <strong>WP</strong>1/19/9/1<br />

<strong>WP</strong>1/1/181 Letters to William Greenell <strong>Wallace</strong><br />

Letter from <strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong> <strong>Wallace</strong> to his son William from<br />

Broadstone, Dorset, 25 Jun 1903 re approval of William's notes<br />

(on proofs of ''Man's place in the Universe''?), sending four more<br />

chapters, relieved to be finished, thinks the book will sell well;<br />

enclosing a letter (not present) from Hicks; going to meet Mrs<br />

Fisher.<br />

Name: <strong>Wallace</strong>, <strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong>, 1823-1913<br />

<strong>Wallace</strong>, William Greenell, born 1871<br />

Fisher, Arabella Burton (née Buckley), fl 1879-1922<br />

Hicks, ?, fl 1898<br />

Place: Broadstone Dorset England<br />

Notes: OLD REF Letters re books and writing 1903-1907:<br />

<strong>WP</strong>1/19/9/2<br />

<strong>WP</strong>1/1/182 Letters to William Greenell <strong>Wallace</strong><br />

Letter from <strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>Russel</strong> <strong>Wallace</strong> to his son William from<br />

Broadstone, Dorset, 30 Jun 1903 annotated in WGW's? hand<br />

''Book''; re proof reading of his book, (''Man's place in the<br />

Universe''?) sending the last four chapters; agrees section on the<br />

sun vague, argument on light of stars cut out; gravitation and<br />

angular velocity of forces at earth's centre; Mr Marshall to read<br />

proofs also, asks WGW to compare readings with him; writing<br />

rushed but can be improved in a new edition. <strong>The</strong> last page is<br />

54<br />

12 Jan 1903<br />

25 June 1903<br />

30 June 1903<br />

<strong>WP</strong>1

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