WCP3830

Letter (WCP3830.3749)

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

Feb[ruar]y 6th. 1894

My dear Mr. Thistelwood Dyer1

I am glad you like my notice of my old friend Spruce2. 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[iety]3. 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] Spruce was elected A.L.S4 a few months before his death. He refused it when offered many years ago

J.G.B5

1
Sir William Turner Thiselton Dyer (1843-1928), British botanist and third Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
2
Richard Spruce (1817-1893), English botanist.
3
The Linnean Society of London is a society for the study and dissemination of taxonomy and natural history founded in 1788.
4
Associate of the Linnean Society.
5
The paragraph is written in pencil on the back of the letter in another hand, most probably by John Gilbert Baker, Keeper of the Herbarium at Kew, 1890 to 1899.

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

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Revision history

Transcribed by Sloyan, Victoria [2013-03-15]

Please cite as “WCP3830,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3830