WCP5656

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Broadstone, Wimborne

Dec[embe]^r 14th. 1906

J. W. Knapman Esq[uire].

Dear Sir

My friend Sir Thomas Hanbury^{1 has} referred me to Mr Joseph Ince (who wrote a memoir of the late Daniel Hanbury²) for information as to the whereabouts of the letters which his ^brother possessed from Dr Richard Spruce³, the Botanist, which were very numerous and whose Journals, letters, & notes I am now editing from a work on his 15 years South American Travels. Mr Ince does not know where they are now, and has referred me to you. Will [2] you therefor be so kind as to inform if they are preserved in the Library of which you have the charge, and if so whether you can lend them to me to make copies if such as are of botanical or general interest in relation to D^r. Spruce's Botanical Exploration & Studies.

I may add that I am undertaking this matter rather arduous at the request of D^r. Spruce's Executor, and with the support of Sir Joseph Hooker⁴, and Sir Clements Markham⁵.

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

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