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Broadstone, Wimborne.

Aug^t. 20th, 1907

Dear Mr. Slater

Thanks for the paper with Spruce's letter. Sir J. Hooker wrote me about it & offered me his copy — so I wrote to the Sec^y. who sent me one. I shall use part of the letter.

Did Spruce ever tell you now he first took to botany & at what age ? I do not see that mentioned in any of the notices of him I have seen. [2]

I have not done anything to the book the last ^{2 or} 3 months having had an inflamed eye, & also another small literary work on hand,— but I hope soon to get to it again. I have got as far as Baños in Ecuador, & the next will be almost all extracts from letters & from his ^printed papers on the Cinchona &c.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

I am glad to hear you have at last got rid of business anxieties. ARW [3]¹

Aug 24—/-07 replied

Sending Spruce, Mss of Agaricus & Carex also a letter from him to [illeg.] from Barra de Rio Negro Oct 1851.

also some letters & notes after his return to England 8 letters & p.card from dates July—1867 & some in 1893 almost shortly before his death

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Offered also to send Manuel Villavicencio book Geographia de la Republic del Ecuador if desired to see