WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Irving; Hawker Garland's writing; letter from her brother William;
gardeners Monk and Wareham; chess by correspondence.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, Violet, born 1869
Wallace, William Greenell, born 1871
Garland, Hawker, fl 1892
Irving, Sir Henry, 1838-1905
MacReady, William Charles,1793-1873
Arena Publishing Co.
Place: Dorset England
Notes: Date originally read as 1897; but see WP1/2/83, which
refers to the death of Bates (1892) where the last figure is almost
identical. Annotated in pencil in an unknown hand ''Henry VIII |
Arena!''
WP1/2/83 Letters to Violet Wallace
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his daughter Violet, from
Parkstone, Dorset 21 Feb 1892, re the conjunction of Venus and
Jupiter (diagram enclosed -see WP1/2/84); death of (Henry
Walter) Bates; chess games with Miss West, Mr Pocock and Mr
Linton; visit by the Sharpes and Mrs Besant; Mrs Besant's
lectures; Miss Webb; plays Hamlet and Henry VIII.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, Violet, born 1869
Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892
Besant, Annie, née Morris 1847-1933
Sharpe, J W, fl 1890
Webb, Miss, fl 1902
Place: Dorset England
Notes: Date originally read as 1897, but Bates died in 1892 and
date on enclosed sketch is clearly 1892. Annotated in pencil in an
unknown hand (or possibly Alfred Russel Wallace's) ''Mrs
Besant''. Enclosure: sketch diagram of relative positions of Earth,
Venus and Jupiter in Feb 1892. Separately entered as record
WP1/2/84
WP1/2/84 Letters to Violet Wallace
Sketch diagram of relative positions of Earth, Venus and Jupiter in
Feb 1892. Enclosure to letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his
daughter Violet, from Parkstone, Dorset 21 Feb 1892 (See
WP1/2/83)
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, Violet, born 1869
Place: Dorset England
Notes: Date originally entered as 1897, the date originally read for
the letter. Internal evidence in the letter as well as the date of the
conjunction on the sketch make it certainly 1892.
WP1/2/85 Letters to Violet Wallace
Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his daughter Violet, from
Parkstone, Dorset 25 Mar 1897, re letters from her brother
William; coughs and colds; Stevenson's ''New Arabian Nights''.
86
21 Feb 1892
Feb 1892
25 Mar 1897
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