WCP1566

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Old Orchard.

Broadstone.

Dorset.

Dec[embe]^r.: 26th 1912.

My dear Miss Macdonald.

Many thanks for the little book you have sent me which I shall keep to fill up vacant 1/4 hours when waiting for dinner or tea & tired of writing.

I have just finished a little book for a Public Morals Society which I²[2] think will interest you, & hope to send you a copy of when they print it, which may be some months yet. Its title is — "Social Environment & Moral Progress", & it is a pretty strong indictment on our actual "Social Environment".

It is so horribly dark (at 11.30 am.) that I can hardly see to write.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace.[3]

On a post-card dated Dec: 31st 1905.

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I send you my best wishes for the new year. "big with the fate of men & nations" — as some one says, & as this one certainly promises to be.