WCP2856

[1]

Oct[ober]. 26 1906

Dear D^r. Wallace

Herewith some particulars of Spruce's¹ correspondence, which the Director 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. Massie,[?]² 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 Hemsley [signature]³