From Peter Wallace 10 September 1856
Summary
Reports on the naturalised animal life of Ascension.
| Author: | Peter Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Sept 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 261 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1953 |
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- … Wallace, Peter Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Peter Wallace 10 September 1856 …
- … DAR 205.2: 261 Peter Wallace Ascension 10 Sept 1856 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of twenty Starlings sent by the Admiralty Peter Wallace crossed pencil ‘Doves feral’ added …
- … dear Sir | Your very obedient Servant | Peter Wallace To M r . C. Darwin | Down, Bromley— …
CD memorandum [December 1855]
Summary
Requests skins of domestic breeds or races of poultry, pigeons, rabbits, cats, and dogs from any unfrequented region. [Attached is a list of people to whom CD has written for pigeon and poultry skins.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [Dec 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 206: 34–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1812 |
Raby, Peter. 2001. Alfred Russel Wallace: a life. London: Chatto & Windus.
To H. A. D. Seymour 20 January 1881
Summary
Sends address of A. R. Wallace. Comments on Wallace’s pension.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Alfred Damer Seymour |
| Date: | 20 Jan 1881 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.579) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13018 |
From A. R. Wallace 14 September 1878
Summary
Requests support for his appointment as Superintendent of Epping Forest.
Working on a book [Australasia. Stanford’s compendium of geography and travel, edited and extended by A. R. Wallace (1879)].
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Sept 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B138–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11693 |
From A. R. Wallace 30 January 1869
Summary
Argues that [general variability] of species, not single variations or sports, is basis for modification and adaptation to new conditions.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Jan 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B75–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6583 |
From A. R. Wallace 5 September [1868]
Summary
Accepts invitation.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Sept [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6350 |
From A. R. Wallace 16 July 1871
Summary
Sorry CD allows criticisms of Darwinism to worry him.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B107–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7868 |
From J. D. Hooker 26 November 1880
Summary
Huxley has persuaded JDH that the Wallace memorial may not be hopeless; JDH still has misgivings about Wallace’s spiritualism but will follow CD’s and Huxley’s decision.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 349) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12860 |
From A. R. Wallace 7 June 1876
Summary
Comments on CD’s criticism of Geographical distribution.
Plans to sell his house.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10535 |
From A. B. Buckley 7 November 1880
Summary
Has spoken to Wallace to see if reluctant to accept a Government pension. He would accept if CD and Huxley believe it justified. Encloses details of Wallace’s efforts to obtain a position as naturalist and his claims for a pension.
| Author: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 370 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12802 |
From A. R. Wallace 23 July 1876
Summary
Responds to CD’s comments and criticism of Geographical distribution.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 July 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B126–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10564 |
From Alfred Russel Wallace 7 February 1868
Summary
Thanks for Variation.
Reports work on his travel book [The Malay Archipelago (1869)].
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5848 |
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| people | (8) |
| bibliography | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (17) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Buckley, A. B. | (1) |
| Kirby, W. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Reade, T. M. | (1) |
| Seymour, H. A. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (37) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (22) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Buckley, A. B. | (1) |
| Kirby, W. F. | (1) |
