WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Mitten, Mrs William, fl 1894
Reid, Clement, 1853 –1916
Harris, Frank, 1856-1931
Place: Dorset England
WP1/2/58 Letters to Violet Wallace
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his daughter Violet, from
Parkstone, Dorset 10 Jan 1895, re (travelling?) bags for herself and
brother William, enclosing postal order; William at Inverkeithing,
Scotland, working on lighting for a paper mill; hard frost and snow
at Parkstone, Violet's skates; Alfred Russel Wallace has given Mrs
Maclachlan, who studied Sanskrit and other languages at Girton,
his paper on language to read.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, Violet, born 1869
Maclachlan, Mrs. fl 1894
Place: Dorset England
WP1/2/59 Letters to Violet Wallace
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his daughter Violet, from
Parkstone, Dorset 31 Jan 1895 re winter weather; (travel) bags for
Violet and her brother William; William going to Glasgow on
another job; Alfred Russel Wallace's ''Evolution'' article partpublished
this month, his article on language due out in three
months or more; the Evans's business failing; Violet's final exams
and career prospects as a kindergarten teacher; planned chess
match, Poole and Parkstone against Bournemouth; sending copy
of the ''R of R'' with interesting articles on ''Merry England'' and
Mr Blatchford; Mrs Maclachlan and Hamish returning to
Hindhead; Alfred Russel Wallace's answer to Mr Mott's enigma;
death of Dr Fisher.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, Violet, born 1869
Wallace, William Greenell, born 1871
Blatchford, Robert, (''Nunquam'') 1851-1943
Evans, Mrs, fl 1894
?, Maclachlan, Mrs. fl 1894
Maclachlan, Hamish, born c 1889
Mott, Frederick Thompson, 1825-1908
Fisher, Dr, fl 1883
Place: Dorset England
Notes: Annotated at the top in blue pencil in an unknown hand:
''Riddle''.
WP1/2/60 Letters to Violet Wallace
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his daughter Violet, from
Parkstone, Dorset 10 Feb 1895, re nervous illness of her mother
(Annie Wallace), attended by Dr Philpotts; fifth very cold winter
in Dorset; no water in house due to frozen water pipes; reports that
winter the coldest since 1854; hard frosts in Norfolk, deep snow in
Rome, Germany and America, warning Violet not to skate on thin
ice; news of Mrs Fisher and Mrs Maclachlan.
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10 Jan 1895
31 Jan 1895
10 Feb 1895
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