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39 Grosvenor Park

Tunbridge Wells

Febr^y 26th 1904

Dear Mr Wallace,

I have just received your kind letter and your last book, for both of which I return my very best thanks[.]

I am very glad to learn that you are really going to write your autobiography[.]¹ I have kept every scraps relatives [sic] to your fam. [fame] so carefully that in case you went to the [2] spirit land first I would look around to see for some one with sufficient capacity and knowledge to put the material together, but on my word I do not know any one of sufficient [illeg.] of mind to undertake the task.

I have frequently had in mind your brother W.G.’s² conundrum one morning.

Thomas "when is a man most [illeg.] I gave [3] up the reddle [sic]. Answer When he is confined in his own [illeg.]. Taken in the general & metaphorical sense. This seems to me to be an almost universal malady. The learned & the ignorant alike make their little vessels the measure for universal man & truth.

I herewith send you some very interesting material. I shall [illeg.] repose more later on. At present however it is evident that you must [4] have been living at Neath Abbey early in 1839.

As soon as I can I will send you all I have of Letters & Statutes.

I often wonder in my own mind whether the [illeg.] of the vale of health is as beautiful as I imagine them or if the destroying hand of improvement had made it ugly?

I remain | yours sincerely | Tho^s. Sims³ [signature]

D^r. A. R. Wallace