WCP2856

[1]

Oct. 26 1906

Dear D^r. Wallace

Herewith some particulars of Spruce's¹ correspondence, which the Director² would willingly permit to be copied, and I think there would be no difficulty in getting a typist to do it, although it would have to be done in the library. I estimate that the letters average four closely written pages of this size.

[2] My colleague, M^r. Massee,³ who had the whole of the mss. in his hands at one time, says it was impossible to lose it, because there was enough (including meteorological tables, etc.) to fill a case a cubic yard in capacity.

Perhaps you will write again when you have examined the list[.]

yours truly | W. Botting Hemsley⁴ [signature]

[3]⁵

Letter – Spruce to Bentham

p. 25 x 9 words = 225 pages [x] 4 [=] 900 words a letter

30 letters say 1000–

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R. Negro Journal contains – in a page oflarge note

50 lines of 16 words = 500

a letter of 4pp = == 2000 words

30 letters 60,000 words

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If smaller paper this size

42 lines of 10 = 420 [x] 4 [=] 1680 words in a letter [x] 30

30 letters [=] 50,400

50,000 words –

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Spruce to Sir W. Hooker

[illeg.]bata – Guayaquil 1858 1862}

1700

85 letters

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8500

13600

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144,500