Wallace Online Manuscript Database
| Identifier: | NHM-WP01.003.026 |
| Date: | 1853.07.02 |
| Name: | Wallace Alfred Russel, Spruce Richard, Antony Henrique, Lima Joao Antonio de, Chagas ?, Darwin Charles Robert, Hooker Sir William Jackson, Diaz Gregorio |
| Description: | Letter from Richard Spruce to A. R. Wallace from San Carlos del Rio Negro, 2 Jul 1853, re A. R. Wallace's shipwreck and lost specimens; threatened uprising by local Indians; plant collecting at San Jeronymo ( San Jeronimo); canoes on the Vuapes; steamers on the Amazon; Darwin and other English travellers; Chagas in prison; expected arrival of Antonio Diaz; publication of Spruce letters by Hooker; local women; plans for an expedition to the source of the Orinoco. Place: San Carlos del Rio Negro Brazil Orinoco river Notes: Letter no in contents list: 24. 2 folios, blue paper |
| Document type: | Correspondence |
