WCP4667

[1]

Radnor, Penn,

U.S

March 29, 1897

Alfred Russel Wallace, F.R.S, G.R.Y.S, D.R.L etc.

Dear Sir: You may remember an inquiry which I ventured to trouble you with, last summer, with regard to the status and pronunciation of the word MIAS, and which you very kindly answered.

It is a debatable gratitude, perhaps, which repays an answer to a note which after all, can [2] be read and deciphered with ease, by the presentation of an arid treatise which can be read only with aid from heroism and may rather excite a desire to "dispatch" it, or its author, then lend itself to an easier disposal.

However I am sure that the explorer of the Malay Archipelago can not be daunted by mere ventral terrors; and indeed I hope you will find some things of interest to you [3] in the threatened treatise.

I therefore venture to lay it before you. It is entitled "the Malayan words in English", and consists of a paper published, in two sections, in the "Journal of the American Oriental Society." Issues 17 and 18, and now bound together. You will see that I have availed myself of the information you were kind enough to give me, with regard to MIAS.

I am with great respect, very truly yours l Charles P.G Scott [signature]