| Description | 1. List of Alfred Russel Wallace's correspondents by type with notes re some of Alfred Russel Wallace's letters, undated, in William Greenell Wallace's hand; in columns on fourteen folios of lined paper; approximately eight hundred names in rough alphabetical order within the categories:
'Separate packets of letters'
'Scientists, Biological, Geographical &c'
'Scientists, Physics & Mathematics &c'
'Socialists, Spiritualists, Clergymen, Anti-Vacc, -Vivs &c'
'Socialists Anti Vacc - Viv, Pol. Eco. Land'
'Authors, Journalists, Poets, Artists'
'Politicians &c., Statesmen'
'Odd Celebrities'
'Curious (Cranks &c)' and
'Unclassified (Unknown)'
with a section on the last page headed 'short reminiscences received from' not present in the typed version; some pages numbered within category.
2. TS copy of the above with slight variations, 9 numbered and 1 (last) unnumbered folios typed on one side only with corrections and annotations in pencil and red ink including the number [of letters from each correspondent] [in William Greenell Wallace's hand]; last page, headed 'Letters received by A.R. Wallace on his 90th birthday', is not present in the Ms version.
3. List [in William Greenell Wallace's or Alfred Russel Wallace's hand] in ink headed 'Missing letters to Dr A.R. Wallace from - ' listing approximately 30 names in total divided into the categories Biologists, Physicists, Social Reformers &c., Authors, Journalists &c., Politicians, and Unclassified; 1 folio of lined blue exercise-book paper written on both sides.
Notes: Most folios of the ms are folded, some are single, pages written on one side only. The typed version was found in box three and inserted here. PJL 19/6/03 |