Provenance

The Wallace Collection was acquired in a number of accessions, beginning in the mid-1950s. Among these were accession numbers 1995-45ms, 1977-1442ms; 1976-1490ms, 1975-738ms, 1971-77bms, and 1962-2272ms.

Many of the letters were previously catalogued in the Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection and the Letters of Scientists Collection, and were transferred in March, 2001.

Preferred citation

Cite as: Alfred Russel Wallace Collection, American Philosophical Society.

Processing information

Recatalogued by rsc, 2002.

Related material

The Darwin-Lyell Collection contains 28 letters from Wallace to Lyell, and Wallace is mentioned in approximately half a dozen letters in the Darwin Papers. Other significant letters written by or about Wallace appear in the Eyton, Gulick, Russell, and LeConte Papers.

All of Wallace's major printed works can be found in the APS Printed Materials Department.