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From:
Richard Spruce
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
29 January 1850
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: KLDC10180
Summary:
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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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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.”
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Waiting for a passage to England; clothes left at Barra to be forwarded; speculation on Spruce's plans, regards to Mr King.
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