WCP3501

Letter (WCP3501.3391)

[1]1

1

Broadstone, Wimborne.

July 11th. 1908

Mess.rs Macmillan & Co.1

Dear Sirs

I return the maps. The "Llanganati" only wants one name added, as shown on rt. side — as I see Spruce refers specially to it.

On the general route map, I have enclosed a list of a few further corrections — noted also on the map. I have been more worried by this map than by all the rest of the book, as I send at first, full materials, especially [2] the Society's map — (issued by Stanford2 40 years ago) and my R. G.S. Rio Negro & Uaupes map — neither of which seem to have been used at all!

To omit "S. Gabriel," and the "cataracts," from a map of the Rio Negro, would have been incredible to me, even by a beginner in mapmaking — besides all the other gross blunders, I have had to point out — for they are nothing less and the excuse is absurd. In my opinion a humble apology is what is needed from Mr. Stanford in [3] such a case as this. But this is, of course, between ourselves — "Private".

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Macmillan, Frederick Orridge (1851-1936). Eldest son of Daniel Macmillan, a founding partner in the bookselling and publishing firm of Macmillan & Co.
Stanford, Edward (1827-1904). British publisher, mapmaker and bookseller.

Please cite as “WCP3501,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3501