WCP3386

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

Nov[embe]^r 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's List, and the name of my book, with your ^name as publishers — & today I get enclosed letter. Will you please answer it, for once, as I do [the former word replaces a deleted and illeg. word] 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.

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[2] Will you ask Stanford² to let us have the use of the plate of a Papuan at p. 399 of the Australasia vol. II.³ Dr. Guillemard⁴ (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 D^r. 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]