WCP6129

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24, Southfield Gardens,

Strawberry Hill

March 19 [19]'15

Dear Sir

I am engaged on a bibliography of the pictorial botanical works of the late Walter Hood Fitch, and in this connection, I have find a set of proofs ⁽⁴⁰⁾ of the lithographs of the late D^r A. R. Wallace's "Palm Trees of the Amazon", can you tell me whether the original ^drawings are still [2] in existence, and if so where they are preserved? This unpretentious ^{and rare} little book appeared in 1853, and , I believe, attracted little attention from ^Botanists few of whom ^{as that date} knew everything of the Palms of the Amazons. But I am told by my friend, Professor J. W. H. Frail of Aberdeen, who has travelled in the same region, and special studied the Palms, that it is excellent, so far as [3] it goes.

I think the book must be very rare because I never see it offered in catalogues of second hand botanical works.

Yours faithfully | W. Botting Hemsley [signature]

W. G. Wallace, Esq.