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Old Orchard

March 23rd, 1910

My dear Olive,

I have been (and am) so dreadfully busy that your ants got mislaid & forgotten. Pray excuse me. They look like foreign ants, but I am not sure as it is a group I know nothing of; so I return them.

What with making a new wild garden, building a dog hut seats, making gates, draining a bog, making a road, cutting down trees, splitting them with wedges — planting hundreds of shrubs & plants, putting up 400 feet of fencing, and a whole lot of other things, my book has been absolutely at a stand still, & I cannot possibly work at it till I have this garden work out of hand. It has however done my health good. Violet's cottage is let, & there is also work finishining[sic] that up — garden planting, road & path making &c.&c.&c.

Even the great political news of the day now falls a little flat.

Yours very sincerely | Alfred R. Wallace.

2 or 3 men at work this last 2 months.