By George Beccaloni, December 2023
During 2023 I located 100+ letters to and from Wallace which the Project 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 of 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:
Our new volunteer Christine Chua, recently transcribed a typewritten manuscript list, probably produced after Wallace's death by his son William, who wanted to sell the books from Wallace's library. It is entitled "Dr A. R. Wallace's Library. List of the principal books" and images of the document can be seen in the project's old and largely defunct website Wallace Letters Online - see HERE
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