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| Description | Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his son William from Parkstone, Dorset, 28 Feb 1899 re William's letters from America, death of his horse, snowshoes, severe winter in New York; 'Ardmore' still not sold; gathering material for autobiography, does William know whereabouts of steel seal and inscription on family ring, intends to visit a Dorset clerygyman who owns a painting of a member of the Wallace family and if possible photograph for the book ; bulbs and seeds ordered for garden; apparent loss of books and magazines in post; William's intention to start a business in Bournemouth [with Ma]); Alfred Russel Wallace writing on 'white' men in the tropics for the New York 'Independent'; writing on Craig's 'History of Ralahine', Irish cooperative farm 1831-33, to publicise a successful experiment in Socialism.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913ARW
Wallace, William Greenell, born 1871
MacAlpine, G A, fl 1893- 1905
Craig, Edward Thomas, fl 1831
Place: Parkstone Dorset England USA Ireland
Notes: RECORD MODIFIED 28/7/03 OLD REF Correspondence 1879-1922: WP1/19/25 |