WCP2269

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Feb^y 24 [1871]

Dear M^r Wallace

I write to thank you for what you have said of me & mine in your address² to the Ent. Soc. It is to me beyond all money value & gave me a thrill of pleasure when I read it[.] It is all the pay we get but as I have said is beyond price[.] It will be sunshine as long as I can draw a butterfly[.] I thank you too [2] for your observations on Kirbys³ work[.]⁴ It is a great work but marred by his genera[.] Butler⁵ is doing far more mischief than Kirby he is not only adopting Hubner⁶ genera but making so many of his own as he says "to facilitate the study" that his pamphlets are for me written in an unknown tongue[.] I see that your address is at your new place & therefore suppose that you are in your new house[.] I should greatly like to see what you have [3] done in landscape gardening but I am now so sensitive to damp that I fear I shall before long have to shut myself up in the house[.]

I hope that your wife⁷ & children⁸ are well & should like to be kindly remembered to M^rs Wallace[.]

Yours very truly | W. C. Hewitson⁹ [signature]

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