WCP2855

Letter (WCP2855.2745)

[1]1

H.M.S. VICTORIOUS,

ATLANTIC FLEET.

Tetuan [Tétouan]2

18 Oct 1906

Dear Dr Wallace

The Tarapoto3 journals are certainly a most serious loss. We often talked over his Andean work, but I never saw the journals. Their disappearance is most unaccountable. He once gave me an account of the so-called "Salto de Aguirre [Spanish: Leap of Aguirre]"4on the Huallaga, which was probably an extract from the [2]5 journal up the Salineras to Tarapoto. Spruce6 made the list of his publications for me, when I was working for the pension. The loss of these journals is most deplorable[.]

Yours very sincerely | Clements R Markham [signature]

I am paying a visit here, as the Admiral's guest[.]

1
Page 1 is numbered page 188 in the upper right-hand corner by the repository.
2
A Moroccan port city.
3
A town in Peru.
4
Referring to a rock overhanging the Huallaga river with various stories attached to it. Bolleart, William (Ed) 2017. Routledge. The Expedition of Pedro de Ursua & Lope de Aguirre in Search of El Dorado.
5
There is a red logo of the British Museum to the left of the signature.
6
Spruce, Richard (1817-1893). British botanist, explorer and collector in the Amazon; lifelong friend of ARW.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP2855.2745)]

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Transcribed by Lo, Yen-Nyuk [2020-06-09]

Please cite as “WCP2855,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2855