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Broadstone, Wimborne.

Feb^y. 11th. 1908

Messrs. Macmillan & Co.²

Dear Sirs

I wrote to Prof. J. B. Balfour,³ Ed. of the "Annals of Botany", for the use of the plate of Spruce's⁴ portrait — a very good one — which was made from a photo. taken a year or two before his death.

I have to-day had a letter⁵ from The Clarendon Press, Oxford saying that the plate has been [2] found and will be sent to you, & can be used if acknowledged in the Book.

I write to tell you that I have the original negative from Mr. Slater⁶ (Spruce's Executor) so that in case the plate (a Photo-gravure I think) has been at all damaged, you can have a new one made. If you like I will send you the negative for your experts to compare [3] with the plate, — or in case you think any other kind of plate had better be used. It will be of course for the Frontispiece.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

P.S. The portrait appears in the Annals of Botany — Dec^r 1900 — (vol. XIV) to Illustrate in Biography by D^r. J. B. Balfour.

A.R.W.