Notes on an Infant (1867-1868) – Herbert “Bertie” Spencer Wallace
Notes on an Infant (1867-1868) – Herbert “Bertie” Spencer Wallace
By Christine Chua
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By Christine Chua
(Originally published here: https://quotidiandarwin.com/kb/record-of-the-rustic-ramblers-by-violet-isabel-wallace-1869-1945/)
EXPLORING THE LIFE OF ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE’S BROTHER-IN-LAW, THOMAS SIMS, ON THE 200th ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH (26 MARCH 2024).
By Anne Woodward (March 2024)
The Wallace Correspondence Project (WCP) is delighted to announce the release of a preliminary (still to be annotated and further edited) transcript of one of Alfred Russel Wallace’s most important notebooks – the first of his three surviving Field Notebooks which he kept in the Malay Archipelago f
Trip up Grays Peak with Alfred Russel Wallace, by Alice Eastwood
Commentary & transcription by Christine Chua, Jan. 2024
By George Beccaloni, December 2023
During 2023 I located 100+ letters to and from Wallace which the Wallace Correspondence Project (WCP) didn't previously know about. I am fairly sure that hundreds remain to be found in the archives of libraries and other institutions worldwide, but tracking them down will require a lot more time-consuming detective work. As an example of how we find 'new' letters, here is a brief account of work I did today which MAY have found four we don't have:
Christine was (re-)introduced to Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace when her daughter took a Darwin and Evolution module at the National University of Singapore.
By George Beccaloni, November 2023
By George Beccaloni
We are delighted to announce that the project has just published the first ever catalogue of all known surviving letters to and from Wallace. It contains records of 5,688 letters arranged chronologically, of which 2,748 were written by Wallace and 2,159 were sent to him. The remaining 781 are third party letters which either pertain to him (e.g.