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AR190
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- 03 Feb 1913 (Creation)
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1 item
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Biographical history
Alfred Wallace lived at Waldron Edge, Duppas Hill Lane, 1878 - 1881 and was connected with the CNHSS during this time.
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Transferred from the Local Studies Library image collection (PH/97/15909) in June 2012.
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Accession Number: A1060
Letter of Alfred Russell Wallace
Letter on pre-printed note paper addressed to F.M.Roberts, Hon Sec of the CNHSS: I am so busy with books and correspondence that I cannot say anything about your Society, and I have quite forgotten that I was a member, but I have a recollection of attending the Annual Microscopical Meetings. It is certainly a new idea to have a Sociological Committee in a Local Nat. Hist. Society, and I hope it may do good.
Item date: 03 Feb 1913
Accession date: 16/06/2012
Administrative history: Alfred Wallace lived at Waldron Edge, Duppas Hill Lane, 1878 - 1881 and was connected with the CNHSS during this time.
Custodial history: Transferred from the Local Studies Library image collection (PH/97/15909) in June 2012.
Copyright: Under UK copyright law, literary works such as letters and notebooks authored by Alfred Russel Wallace (ARW) which were unpublished at the time of his death on November 7th 1913, will remain in copyright until 20391. This copyright is owned by the Alfred Russel Wallace Literary Estate which currently has three co-executors, namely Mr Richard Russel Wallace (Dick), Mr Alfred John Russel Wallace (John) and Dr George W. Beccaloni.
See www.wallaceletters.info
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Letter on pre-printed note paper addressed to F.M.Roberts, Hon Sec of the CNHSS: I am so busy with books and correspondence that I cannot say anything about your Society, and I have quite forgotten that I was a member, but I have a recollection of attending the Annual Microscopical Meetings. It is certainly a new idea to have a Sociological148 Committee in a Local Nat. Hist. Society, and I hope it may do good. Yours very truly, Alfred R. Wallace. P.S. I left Croydon I think in 1880. ARW.
The letter is mounted on card with a note of explanation.
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- English
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Mounted on card.
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Existence and location of copies
A photocopy is available in the Wallace biographical files.
A digital copy has been supplied to the Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project at the Natural History Museum (www.wallaceletters.info) and will be published online in 2012 or 2013.
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Publication note
The letter is transcribed in Alfred Russel Wallace: His Links with Croydon and with the Croydon Microscopical and Natural History Club by Paul W. Sowan and Jean I. Byatt (CNHSS, 1973) held at S70 (92) WAL.
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GB-352-ar190
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Dates of creation revision deletion
24/06/2015