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10 Beaufort Gardens

S.W.

4 March 1867.

My dear Wallace,

Will you kindly let me know when and where I could have half an hour's conversation with you —² If it would suit you & you can let me know in time, I would call on you tomorrow afternoon. I want to ask your cooperation in a series of Zoological Manuals which Macmillan the publisher [2] is prepared to bring out with myself as general editor. Bates,³ Flower⁴ & Mivart⁵ have consented to engage themselves to do the Coleoptera, Mammalia & Reptilia with Amphibia, and I trust you may be disposed for an adequate remuneration to treat the Lepidoptera —

Should you be unable to see me tomorrow perhaps you could meet me in Hanover Square at 2 oClock on Wednesday [3] should you feel inclined to regard the scheme with favour — It would be difficult by letter to enter more fully into details, but I may mention that, subject to some few general principles to be adopted for uniformity's sake, it is my wish that each author should treat his subject just as he liked — and that the sum to be paid for the Entomological volumes would not be less than £100 each.

Believe me | Y^rs very Truly | Alfred Newton⁶ – [signature]