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WCP3830

Letter (WCP3830.3749)

[1]1,2

Parkstone, Dorset.

Feby. 6th. 1894

My dear Mr. Thistelwood Dyer3

I am glad you like my notice4 of my old friend Spruce.5 I am going to have his MSS. Journals to look over & perhaps edit for publication. Do you know who would be the best publisher. Also who knows his work best, & could give some sort of a recommendation of his reputation which might induce a publisher to undertake [2] the risk.

I had certainly an idea that he was a fellow or Associate of the Linnean Soc. but I looked in the latest list of fellows and associates but his name nowhere appears.

Believe me | yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

[3]6

1
In Thiselton-Dyer’s handwriting, “Ansd 8.2.94.”
2
Round stamp of "ROYAL GARDENS – KEW 7 FEB. 94.”
3
Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner (1843-1928). Leading British botanist, and the third director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
4
Wallace, A. R. 1894. Richard Spruce, Ph.D., F.R.G.S. Nature 49 (1266): 317-319.
5
Spruce, Richard (1817-1893). British botanist, explorer and collector in the Amazon; lifelong friend of ARW.
6
In JGB’s handwriting, “Spruce was elected A.L.S a few months before his death. He refused it when offered many years ago[.] J.G.B.” J.G.B. has not been identified.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3830.3749)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Sloyan, Victoria [2013-03-15] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP3830,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3830