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Broadstone, Wimborne

Feb[ruar]^y 9th. 1907

Messrs Macmillan & Co.¹

Dear Sirs

I send you the native drawings with Dr. Spruce's² 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 now being those we thought best — the second now 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 and 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.