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23 Nov[ember] 1908

dear Mr Keltie

There are some short botanical notes in Spruce's⁴ book, but I think the substance has been in Hooker's Journal.

The small vol[ume] contains a very Full vocabulary of the Tupi and Lingoa Garal collected between 1851 and 1854, with notes on the sounds of the Tupi language, some useful [2] dialogues and phrases, and notes for a grammar.

This has, I believe, been since more elaborately done to the Brazilians. Still all that Spruce ever did was so careful and accurate that it would be a pity not to utilize it for the use of the rapidly increasing number of English speaking people on the Amazons.

Our first separate publication was Powse's[?] grammar of the Cree Language, and I gave a grammar and vocabularies [3] of the Eskimo in the Arctic Manual.

There is a [1 word illeg.] and at Iquitos I think also at Monaco, and Steam Navigation too. They might contribute.

But it would be necessary to have an English-Tupi, as well as a Tupi-English vocabulary. There would be about 72 printed pages, including the English-Tupi, vocabularies being in double columns.

I have just heard that the University will, for the next five years, give £600 [4] a year to the Oxford School of Geography. Good news! Besides showing the increased appreciation of the importance of geography[.]

yours sincerely | Clements R Markham [signature]

We must first see what Dr Wallace has embodied[?] in his book.