WCP3717

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Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne.

Sept[embe]r 16th. 1908

B. Daydon Jackson Esq.¹

Dear D^r Jackson

Pray excuse me troubling you again for a little information. In the Biographical Part of Martin's Hora of Brazil, a detailed List of Spruce's Writings is given — and those in the "Journal of Botany" are entered under two heads — "Botanical Excursions in the Amazon" in Vols. II. III. & IV. and "Journal of a Voyage up the Amazon and Rio Negro" in vols. V. to IX.

The first set I know are in letters to Sir William Hooker² — I have copies of [2] all Spruce's letters to Sir W. Hooker preserved at Kew (and also of those to Mr. Bentham). What I wish to know is, whether the accounts of Spruce's journeys in V to IX — especially those in East Peru. in Vols. VIII and IX. are also really the letters to Sir W. Hooker or to Mr. Bentham.³ All my copies of letters from Tarapoto (E. Peru) are to Mr. Bentham, and it will be sufficient if you will look at Vol. VIII pp. 177-81. and Vol. IX. pp. 310-311 — and tell me what they really are.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

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Extracts sent.⁴