WCP3399

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Broadstone, Wimborne

Feb^y. 9th. 1907

Messrs Macmillan & Co.²

Dear Sirs

I send you the native drawings with Dr. Spruce's³ MSS. discriptions of them.

I send over-leaf a rough estimation we made of the comparative merits, as illustrations, if only a part are reproduced. Half of them (22) are placed in the order of merit — but quite provisionally.

If you will lay them out [2] together on a large table you can easily refer to those we selected — the first row being those we thought best — the second row next best & so on.

But your art-experts may of course make any other selection. Nos. 5 & 8 we thought might be grouped together as they are of the same class — man & woman.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

[3]

Customs & Costumes of Quito

1. 22. 23. 29. 34. 40

3. 11. 13. 15. 35. 37

5. 8. 9. 19. 27. 30. 31

10. 33. 42. 44

and 22 others.