[1]1
102, Fordwych Road
Hampstead, N. W.
London 13/12/190[4]
Dear Sir
Having been asked by your namesake the editor of the supplement to the Encl[osed]. Print., to contribute the political articles on the Malay archipelago and Dutch new guinea, I have naturally looked up again your masterwork about these subjects, and gone into the literature, evoked here and abroad by the Wallace theories re[garding]. "division line"2 and the clarification of men and animals and plant life in the Eastern Malay archipelago[. [2] Now I would be extremely obliged and put highly honored if you could briefly intimate to me whether your views are still as expressed in the last edition of the Malay archipelago or if they have been modified in any essential particular[.]
Latterly Mr. Wallace "division line" has been much discussed again in Holland,
even in the States, general[l]y, and it has been even seriously argued therein that Dutch New Guinea is not subject to the [1 word illeg.] for Netherlands [1 word illeg.] lying outside our asiatic possessions, according to Wallace, and acquiring a separate legislation!
Believe me | dear sir | with profound respect, your most truly | H. Tiedeman [signature]
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