WCP3584

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Godstone

12 Dec^r 1858

My dear Sir¹

I feel sure you will excuse me, for troubling you with the request to procure for me the papers by Mr. Wallace selective to Sarawak and Sadong which was read at a meeting of our Society and afterwards printed in an abbreviated form for abstraction.² In this brief form or more fully it was probably printed in the Transactions. I should be much obliged if you can furnish me with this paper by Wallace in its full or abbreviated form [2] as may be and when well enough I should like to consult the original manuscript which may contain matter valuable to me though not valuable to the public —

I am sorry to trouble you but you will pardon it— I am better but there is the writing on the wall—

Will you remember me kindly to Sir Roderick³ &

Believe me | very truly yours | J Brooke⁴ [signature]

Dr Norton Shaw.

P.S. When is M^r Wallace coming home?—

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Wallace’s MS on The Sadong was published in full in Vol. 1. N^o 6- p - 193 of the proceedings.

N Shaw

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