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From:
Herbert Edward ("Edward") Wallace
To:
Richard Spruce
Date:
15 March 1850?
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/21
Summary:
Living conditions in Barra [Amazonas, Brazil]. Doggerel about fishing: “Here we work with Net and Trigger/By the famous river Nigger” (Watertown) Puns on local words: “All the ‘redes’ (nets) possess a title because they’re Barra-nets.”
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project