| Description | Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to John Wallace, from 9, St. Mark's Crescent, Regents Park London NW, 25 May 1869 re probate [of his mother's will] and payment of Wallace family legacies with details of amounts; sister Fanny's finances; Thomas Sims's business; loss of money through investments; details of annual domestic expenditure; comparative cost of living in London and the country; sales of 'Malay Archipelago'; application for museum position; request for seeds of wild Californian plants; children, Alfred Russel Wallace's daughter, now 4 months old, named Violet Isabel.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, John, 1819-1895
Wallace, Violet Isabel?, born 1869
Wallace, Herbert Spencer, 1867-1874
Wallace, Mary Anne, born c 1789 died 1868
Watts,[ ], [died c.1860s]
Burden, [ ], fl 1869
Millard, [ ], fl 1869
Wallace, Herbert Edward, c.1829-1851
Wallace, Eliza, 1810-1832
Wallace, William G, died c.1845
Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875, Baronet
Grey, Thomas De, 1843-1919, 6th Baron Walsingham
Place: California USA London England
Notes: Letter no in contents list: 57. Annotated in ink an unknown hand at top of last page: 'All I can find. M W' (Mary Wallace née Webster?) |