WCP1998

[1]

Wychfield,

Cambridge.

J[ul]y 21/[18]97

Dear Mr Wallace

The enclosed interesting letter from my father¹ must I think have been lent by you to somebody or perhaps lost in some other way. I saw it in a book list and managed to get it[.] [2] As I know you would like to have it with your others I return it, and I should be glad to know if I may publish it[.] I am preparing a volume of purely scientific letters and find it even more difficult than choosing the ones for the Life & Letters [3] — I hope you are continuing well —

With kind regards | Yours v[er]y truly | Francis Darwin² [signature]