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| Description | Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his son William from Broadstone, Wimborne (Dorset), 16 Mar 1908 re correspondence with Mr Waugh; [Daily News] Reading (competition); plans to spend £25 payment when Spruce book ('Notes of a botanist on the Amazon and Andes', by Richard Spruce, edited and condensed and with a biography by Alfred Russel Wallace, published Dec 1908), finished by building a long cement windbreak in the garden; an artist, Mr Young, visiting to finish some of Spruce's outline drawings, four new Spruce pictures found, several photographs including 'native' portraits will also illustrate the book, first proofs have arrived.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, William Greenell, born 1871
Waugh, [ ] fl 1907
Spruce, Richard, 1817-1893
Place: Amazon Andes South America Broadstone Dorset England
Notes: RECORD MODIFIED 28/7/03 OLD REF Letters re houses and building: WP1/19/4/14 |