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[In unknown hand] N. History

Parkstone. Dorset

Feb^y. 10th. 1892

My dear Violet¹

I send you a few beetles — I can find nothing else but butterflies, and no store boxes of any kind. They must be locked up in Will’s² Cupboard. I send also a couple of moths in small box, — one English, one Swiss. The beetles all Malay.

Tell Madame the question is not whether she likes my article [2] but whether it is true. Likes & dislikes don’t alter facts of nature. We have to take them and make the best of them, and it is quite certain they are the best.

Mrs. Besant³ is going to lecture at Poole & Bournemouth next week. I do not [3] expect I shall be able to go though I am much better.

Your dress not come yet.

Your affectionate Papa | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]