WCP6941

[1]

Broadstone, Wimborne.

Feb^y 3rd. 1908

Dear Mr. Slater

I have one more query for you, and then I think I shall have all that is needful for the Spruce biography.

I find in a letter to Mr Borrer¹ (with whom he had a continuous correspondence from 1843 to 1848) that he speaks of "Sam. Gibson², my first adviser in Bryology".

Did he know Gibson, or did he only refer to a book? There [2] is I think a "Gibson's British Flora" — but does it contain Mosses[?]

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

P.S. Mr Borrer kept all Spruce's letters, & after his death, the family gave them to Mr. Mitten, and as I am Mitten's executor, they have fortunately come to me.

A.R.W. [3]³

Written out

Notes of S. Gibsons

from Phytologist

also note or two of Spruces

Sent Catalogue list[?]

of S. American Mosses

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& notice of J. Norwill[?] & Baines

from Biographical index

of British & Irish Botanists

Britten & Boulger