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Frith Hill, Godalming.

June 17^th. 1888

My dear Fanny,

Thanks for your kind recommendations, but they are quite inapplicable to me. Every drop of spirits is poison to me. My illness is a recurrence of the slight inflammation of the bladder which resulted from my illness at ‘Xmas, and I have to avoid everything the least irritating—even a grain of pepper, or spice. Last Wednesday I was in London and went to a Homeopathic physician—¹D^r. Gutteridge & have been taking his medicine—tinctures—ever since [2] every two hours, and I am certainly² much better, and it is far nicer to take these than the horrid wineglass of nauseous stuff I had to take before —every 4 hours,& which seemed to produce no permanent benefit. I have plenty of appetite & take a great deal of milk & puddings, & now a little meat; but, before, meat brought on my illness again — as did that bit of beautiful beefsteak I had with you!

If we do go to Cornwall, no doubt it will be better to sell some of our heavy furniture & what [3] is most difficult to pack. We have not let our house yet though we have had plenty of ^several4 nibbles. If we do not I and Annie³ will probably go to Cornwall for a week or two, & see the place.

I have not written to Mrs. Harries[?] as we cannot let on yet. If she would take it for a month now, with to see if she would like it, — & then if she does & we can agree she could have it in ^the winter or spring, —but I cannot let permanently till I have finished [4] a book I am at work on, or till we find a place to suit us. I am thinking, next year, of sending Willie⁴ to the Finsbury Technical College (if there is not a West End one established by that time) & should like him to board with you, if we can arrange it; but there is plenty of time to think about that. I hope some work is coming to you from the Italian Ex[hibition][?] I send you a sp[ecial][?] paper.

Your affectionate Brother │Alfred R. Wallace [signature] —