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Frith Hill, Godalming

June 8th. 1884

Dear Mr. Windust

Thanks for the Health Conference slip. I am sorry we have at present absolutely no one among our members who could properly represent the Society at such a conference & put forth our views with the force & fulness[sic] they demand. I trust we shall soon obtain some better class of man on our Council.

I shall not write my address, but deliver it from notes, & shall want it reported. Can you undertake this, as if not we must[?] have a regular reporter. I have been busy with some S. Kensington Examinations¹ & have not yet begun to prepare [2] my address. I want the Report of the Crofters Commission² which was promised to be sent me. Will you get it at once, for the Society, & send it me, as I must read it carefully & give a sketch of it. Have you any Report of Mr Fred[eric]^k Harrison's³ lecture in London to the Positivists in which he discussed <"Genge"?> & criticised me. I want to refer to his words. Mr Swinton⁴ has the ^news papers I am pretty sure. Will you look for them when you are next at his house. Also can you tell me if Mr Bryce's Scotch Mountain's[sic] Bill⁵ was talked out, or the house counted out⁶, or how it was got rid of? [3] Any other notes of interesting facts Parliamentary or otherwise during the year which I might refer to would be acceptable.

I shall be always glad to hear from you when you have anything to suggest.

Believe me | Yours faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

P.S. I was glad to see by the newspaper reports of the Health Conference that two or three speakers referred to the Land question as at the root of the matter. Miss <Granger's?> was one I think. But of course they were looked upon as more wild demagogues.

ARW. [signature]