WCP6920

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Broadstone, Wimborne

June 21st, 1906

Dear Mr. Slater

We shall be glad to see you at any time that is convenient, giving us one day's notice. Also say what train you will come by & I will meet you at the Station as people often miss our house.

I shall be glad to see Spruce's drawings, &c. I have looked again over your list of Mss. books &c. & can find no reference whatever to [2] the notes or Journals of the 3 years spent in the Rio Negro, Maupés & Orinooko, parts either wholly new to botanists or where no botanist had been since Humboldt. I may however be contained in some of the 4 books of which you gave me the contents — but overlooked — though that seems hardly likely. He spent I think 6 months at the falls of the Maupés which he found very rich in plants & where he made several [3] of the drawings of Chiefs, houses, & landscapes. Without the corresponding Journal these will be useless!

Please settle the point if possible, before you come as it is most important.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]