WCP7034

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Broadstone, Wimborne

Dec^r 2nd 1906

Dear Miss Garnett

Thanks for the letters. The writing will do very well and is quite easy to read though sometimes the ink is very pale and the writing rather thin. Three are only two points I have to mention :—

1. Please write local and botanical names very distinctly, exactly as they are written in the letters. In the letter to Mr. Smith (28th Dec)₅₁ you have written [1 word illeg.] whereas the name is [1 word illeg.] — two u's instead of n's — the n being pronounced as U. I think you will find that Mr Spence is [2] very careful in writing his u's and n's, at least he is so in a note book of his in which the source name is given. The world is also printed correctly in Hooke's Journal of Botany.

2. The other point is to write contracted words in full — as for instance he sometimes writes Sant^m for Santarem, and Indroductⁿ for Introduction — which will be copied by the [1 word illeg.], & will not look well in print. Of course where the meaning of the contraction is not apparent to you it must be written as it is, and I will consol (it) His "Journals" are crowded [3] with introductions, but I do not know they was to be found in his letters or I would have mentioned it before.

The 2 letters to Mr. Smith are very pleasnt and characteristic. I wish there were more like these.

Yours very truly

[signature] Alfred R. Wallace