WCP830

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[in unknown hand] 1912 asked for cash promised to do all

Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne.

April 18th 1910

Dr. A. Smith Woodward¹ Keeper of Geology, B. M. [British Museum]

Dear Sir

I am preparing a volume on "The World of Life"² treated from a somewhat novel point of view. I write to ask you if I can have permission to use some of the blocks & plates in the ^your guide Books, to "Fossil Reptiles Amphibians & Amphibians ^Fishes – and those to Fossil Mammals & Birds, and to Elephants Recent & Fossil. Of the "Reptiles" [2] I should like to have about 12 to 20 — & of the Mammals &c. perhaps a dozen.

I shall not want them for some months yet perhaps, but wish to know if I can have them, as otherwise I shall have to seek others that are suitable. My publishers are Mess^rs.. Chapman & Hall, who will apply for copies of the Plates if permission can be given to use them.

I apply to you because they are in your department, but if it necessary for me or my [3] publishers to apply to the "Director" or to the "Trustees", I shall be obliged if you will inform me.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

P. S. I was greatly interested in your admirable address³ to the British Association last year.

A.R.W.