WCP3418

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Broadstone, Wimborne.

March 26th. 1908

Mess.[e]rs Macmillan & Co. ¹

Dear Sirs²

Please advise on a technical point of type.⁴

I proposed to print all the specially botanical portions — whether in Letter or journals — in smaller type, so that they might be skipped by the general reader.

The first of these ^{(Letters to John Smith)} occurs on Slip 105, & the printers asked whether it sh.[ould] not be in ordinary type — to which I agreed, as it seemed not exclusively botanical & short.

But it seems to me that [2] there is not a sufficient difference between the two types to catch the eye, & to show the purpose.

I think either a smaller type or closer lines sh.[ould] be used — the latter would do.

Failing this attraction it would I think be necessary to put — "From here to p.[age] — is chiefly Botanical" — at the beginning of each such passage, which I would rather avoid. Please [3]⁴ look at the matter, & instruct the printer to do what you think best —

I think closer lines will answer the purpose best, & also save bulk.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]