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- Illustration of Hertford Grammar School
- Portrait of Wallace, aged 25
- A trip up the Hudson River
- Wallace's final Darwinism lecture at the Lowell Institute
- Attending seances and Wallace's fame in America
- Wallace's trip to Niagara Falls
- Sketch map of Niagara Falls
- List of Wallace's lectures in the USA
- List of medals in Wallace's The Malay Archipelago book
- Wallace's modesty at receiving a medal
- Wallace sends Violet tickets for London Zoo
- Wallace shares amusing answers to a geography exam
- Information on astronomy and the death of Bates
- Sketch of planet conjunctions
- A local lecture and Wallace's radical social views
- List of payments for lectures
- Cover of The Wonderful Century
- The Wonderful Century chapter headings
- Plans for the cover of The Wonderful Century book
- Photographic proof print of a redwood tree
- List of Wallace's publications before 1862
- Photograph of Neath Free Library
- Portrait of Wallace in old age
- Views on science in 1907
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- Wallace is awarded the Order of Merit medal
- Magazine interview with Wallace
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Birthday congratulations and general admiration
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Ivydene,
Sea view rd,
Parkstone.
To Dr. A.R. Wallace 7.1.13.
Dear Sir,
Please accept my heartiest congratulations on this your ninetieth birthday, wishing you the utmost happiness & hoping that you may be spared to us a long while yet; I was glad to read in Mondays D.[aily]N.[ews] & L.[eader] that that [sic] you are still on the warpath, preaching more agitation -more determination, would you could infuse more of that spirit into own so- called leaders today; so that they in their turn could impart more of it to us the rank & file, for I realize that we all must do our part. In saying how much I owe to you for the pleasure I have had in reading what you have given us by your pen, as naturalist, traveller, scientist, Socialist, Anti vaccinationist, I can only say that it is my sincere wish that you do not trouble to acknowledge this letter for I feel we cannot spare the slightest effort on your part from the more useful work you have in hand.
I am yours respectfully
[signed] Arthur Button.
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Wallace Letters Online
View high resolution scans and transcripts of Alfred Russel Wallace's correspondence, including all surviving letters between him and Charles Darwin.