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WCP3500

Letter (WCP3500.3390)

[1]1

Broadstone, Wimborne.

June 26th. 1908

Mess.rs Macmillan & Co.2

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's3 route I had worked on the one I had before.

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]

1
Rectangular stamp, “A.G.G.” and date stamped “27 JUN 1908”.
2
Macmillan, Frederick Orridge (1851-1936). Eldest son of Daniel Macmillan, a founding partner in the bookselling and publishing firm of Macmillan & Co.
3
Spruce, Richard (1817-1893). British botanist, explorer and collector in the Amazon; lifelong friend of ARW.

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] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP3500,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3500