first english edition, a gift from Kermit Roosevelt, who accompanied his father on the expedition and supplied many of the photographs. The recipient was Sir Alfred Pease, a renowned British big game hunter who had hosted the Roosevelts in British East Africa in 1909. with--the accompanying Autograph Letter Signed from Kermit Roosevelt to Pease: "I have asked Francis Edwards in London to send you Father's Brazilian Wilderness, for I think it will interest you. . . . I only heard of R.J. Cunningham's death recently and indirectly. Another of the old gathering gone. I shouldn't ever care to go back to British East, there would be too many memories."