Wallace (Alfred Russel, naturalist, evolutionary theorist, and social critic, 1823-1913) 12 Autograph or Letters signed, Autograph Postcards or Postcards signed & other signed items, comprising: (1). 3 Autograph Letters signed, 1 Autograph Postcards signed & Postcard signed to Rev. George Edwards Comerford Casey, (2) Autograph signed reference & Letter signed to Edward Comerford Casey, (3). Autograph Letter to Ernest Westlake (4). Autograph presentation inscription to Mrs Casey (5). Autograph botanical note signed (6). Autograph Letter signed & initialled note to Olive Casey, together 15pp. and 3 sides, Parkstone and Broadstone, Wimborne, Dorset, 1896-1913, on a variety of subjects, (1) to Rev George Edwards Comerford Casey, "I am very very busy, seeing my large 'Spruce' book [Richard Spruce's Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes..., 1908] through the press arranging illustrations maps &c, getting materials for Biographical Introduction &c. ... . I began reading your 'Great & Good' book [Casey's ?The Broad Churchman, 1891] - the two first chapters were excellent - but afterwards it did not interest me so much, but I have read on, at intervals, till I got to the Chapters on 'Christians' and 'Quakers' - both of which are really admirable... . My publisher's have arranged for a new, cheap, & much reduced edition of 'My Life', - So Will is going to do the cutting out, under my general direction, less than halfis to remain..."; (2). "I have much pleasure in saying that I have known Mr. Edward C. Casey as well as his family, for eight or nine years... and that I consider him to be a young man of exceptionally high character and of a disposition well suited for the profession of an instructor of youth" (3). To Ernest Westlake, "Allow me to introduce to you my young friend Mr. Edward Casey who is much interested in flint implements..." (5). "My Holly-like shrub is Desfontainea spinosa (Gentianacea) native of Peru" (6). Letter & note to Olive Casey, one replying to a juvenile verse in Irish, "To complete your copy of Man's Place in the Universe AR.W"; and a small quantity of other Wallace and Casey family material including: "A verse from The Higher Catechism by Sam Walter Foss", written out and signed by Wallace, verse by Wallace in reply to a riddle by Casey (not Wallace's autograph), photographs of the Wallace and Casey families, ephemera, including tickets, 2 copies of a printed reference for Edward Casey, newspaper cuttings of Wallace's obituary, correspondence from Wallace's son William G. Wallace to Olive and Edward Casey, 2 photographs of Olive and Alvina Bertram "Bertie" as children etc., folds, v.s., v.d. (c. 23 pieces & a qty of photographs).

⁂ Friends and neighbours of Alfred Russel Wallace. Rev. George Edwards Comerford Casey (1845-1912), came from an Anglo-Irish family that made their money in the soap industry in Liverpool. Casey served as a curate in Lincolnshire before becoming an Assistant Master at the High School in Nottingham. Casey was the author of several works, including, Riviera Nature Notes, published in 1898.