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WCP3386

Letter (WCP3386.3354)

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

Novr 26th. 1899

Messrs Macmillan & Co.1

Dear Sirs

I wrote to the Stationery Office asking permission to reproduce the five Challenger Photos. of which I gave them the numbers in Horsburgh's2 List, and the name of my book,3 with your name as publishers — & today I get enclosed letter. Will you please answer it, for once, as I know do not know the exact term for the process by which they are to be produced.

What difference it can make to them I cannot imagine.

(over)

[2] Will you ask Stanford4 to let us have the use of the plate of a Papuan at p. 399 of the Australasia vol. II.5 Dr. Guillemard6 (the Editor) tells me that he thinks it is from a photograph taken by himself, but he has let his house and is at Weymouth & cannot get at his photographs. It is the most characteristic type of a Papuan of all the illustrations I have seen and I therefore wish much to have it. I gather from Dr. Guillemard's letter that he will be home after Xmas. so perhaps it will be as well to wait & get the use of the negative from him.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
Macmillan, Frederick Orridge (1851-1936). Eldest son of Daniel Macmillan, a founding partner in the bookselling and publishing firm of Macmillan & Co.
2
Horsburgh, John (1835-1924). Photographer, notably of cataloging of the photographic negatives taken during the Challenger Expedition 1872–1876, HMSO Edinburgh.
3
Wallace, A. R. 1900. Studies scientific and social. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. And New York: The Macmillan Co. Two volumes.
4
Stanford, Edward (1827-1904). British publisher, mapmaker and bookseller.
5
Wallace, A. R. ed. 1879. Australasia. Stanford’s compendium of geography and travel: based on Hellwald’s ‘Die Erde und ihre Völker’. Edited and extended by Alfred R. Wallace, F.R.G.S., Author of the ‘Malay Archipelago,’ ‘Geographical distribution of animals,’ etc. With Ethnological appendix by A.H. Keane, M.A.I. London: Edward Stanford (Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel).
6
Guillemard, Francis Henry Hill (1852-1933). First reader of geography at Cambridge University, a traveller, writer and naturalist.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3386.3354)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Linden, Tess [2013-08-19] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-08-19] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP3386,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3386