WCP3500

Letter (WCP3500.3390)

[1]1

Broadstone, Wimborne.

June 26th. 19082

Mess.rs Macmillan & Co.3 4

Dear Sirs

This Map I received from you this morning, without the copy on which I had marked many errors of names, & omissions — & without a word of explanation. Also it/has not the corrected line of Spruce's route I had worked on the one I had before.5

Some of the wrong names seem to have been altered others not — 4 I have marked, but others I have not examined.

I had rather have a bare small outline Map to show Spruce's [2] general route than so very erroneous yet elaborate-looking a Map as this — for which of course I shall have the blame.

If this Map is the best that can be done I shall have to say in the Preface that it is only inserted to show Spruce's general route — none of the details being trustworthy.

Please decide what is to be done.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]6

1
In the upper left corner of the page is a stamp that reads, "27 JUN 1908" with the number "454" written underneath it in red in a different hand.
2
To the right of the date is the number "101"written in pencil in a different hand.
3
Macmillan Publishers Ltd., founded by Scottish publishers Daniel Macmillan (1813-1857) and Alexander Macmillan (3 October 1818 — 26 January 1896) in 1843.
4
Across the text "& Co." is a purple rectangular stamp that reads, "A.G.G."
5
Wallace is discussing the publication details of Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes, a 2-volume book published in 1908 written from the notes of Richard Spruce (10 September 1817 — 28 December 1893), an English botanist, after his death. Wallace served as editor of the publication.
6
Below Wallace's signature is a red circular stamp of a crown with the words, "BRITISH LIBRARY" surrounding it.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3500.3390)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Seo, Veri [2013-07-29] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-08-14]

Please cite as “WCP3500,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 10 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3500