WCP3409

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Broadstone, Wimborne

Dec[embe]^r.. 12th. 1907

Messrs.. Macmillan & Co.¹

Dear Sirs

As I am now getting near the end of my work at Spruce's² book, I hope to be able to send you the complete Mss. in a month or so. I feel sure it will be a very valuable and readable work, full of information to be found nowhere else; and I have been trying to find some good photographs to add to its superficial attractiveness. There are none at the Geographical [2] Society— or elsewhere in London— but Mr. Heawood (the Librarian) informs me that there have been German travellers in Ecuador lately & he thinks that photographs may perhaps be had in Berlin. or Paris. Also that the "Charges d'Affaires" for Ecuador, (at 120, Bishopsgate Street Withire. E.C. —) might give information.

Could you let one of your clerk's call there? Also can ^you make enquiries at Berlin and Paris? To guide you [3] as to what is wanted I enclose a list of the chief places & objects, of which good photos could be very desirable.

There are a dozen or 20 pencil drawings by Spruce— Portraits of Natives, & a few views of trees, Mtns, &c. worth reproducing, but not so effective as good photographs would be.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]