| Description | Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his son William from Old Orchard, Broadstone, Wimborne (Dorset), 2 Dec 1908 annotated [in William Greenell Wallace's hand] 'Lecture Medals' and ['O M V'] re request from Mrs Swinton for full names of William and his sister Violet, Aneurin Williams, barrister and a director of the 'Garden City Company' her husband's executor, past correspondence about Mr Swinton's will on behalf of the Land Nationalisation Society, shares for William and Violet; arrival of the (Royal Society) Copley medals, one gold and one silver; letter from Lord Chancellor excusing Alfred Russel Wallace from personal attendance at the Investiture (of the Order of Merit); his own and William's health; progress of writing lecture (on Darwinism, for the Royal Institution).
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, William Greenell, born 1871
Wallace, Annie, née Mitten, born c.1846
Wallace, [Violet Isabel], born 1869
Swinton, A C, fl 1891-1905
Swinton, Mrs A C, fl 1905
Williams, Anuerin, fl 1905
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882
Place: Broadstone Dorset England
Notes: RECORD MODIFIED 28/7/03 OLD REF Letters re R I lecture and Medals 1908 and 1909: WP1/19/11/3 |