| Description | Letter from Richard Spruce to Alfred Russel Wallace, from Amotape, Peru, 21 Nov 1863 re journey from Guayaquil, heart-attack, paralysis, general ill-health and poverty, inability to collect insects for Alfred Russel Wallace; botany, illness preventing his work on collection of mosses; bitterness at treatment by Sir William Hooker; newspaper reports on Darwin's 'Origin of Species', geographical distribution of species; Alfred Russel Wallace's Malayan collections; collectors in the Andes; tameness of native birds; marriage; possibility of returning to England.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Spruce, Richard, 1817-1893
Markham, Sir Clements Robert, 1830-1916, knight
Pierce, Richard
Fraser, Louis
LaCondamine, Charles Marie, 1701-1774
Hooker, Sir William Jackson, knight, 1785-1865
Bentham, George, 1800-1884
Poeppig, E F
Matthews, [ ]
Blacker, Alexander [ ]
Place: Amotape Peru Andes South America Banos Ecuador Guayaquil Mount Chimborazo Quito Tarapoto Peru Payata
Notes: Letter no in contents list: 53. 2 Large folios |