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Parkstone, Dorset.

July 5^th. 1893

My Dear Violet¹

I write just to tell you that Mrs Iselin, like a good angel, has come to the rescue, & will come for 3 weeks from next Tuesday, so we shall leave on Wednesday morning. We had her letter this morning & just now Miss Travers has been in to say that a lady is staying with D^r. Allman who has a friend who wants to come here; — so if we can [2] manage it we shall get her to come for another 3 weeks after Mrs I. leaves. We shall go I think to Dove Dale for one or two days & then on to Windermere, & perhaps stay in the Yorkshire mountains on our way back where you can stay a week ^{or two} with us & then home together.

Will has got new lodgings nearer the works, & after [3] Saturday next his address will be —

212, Portland Road

Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Be sure and always put

-on-Tyne,

or it may go wrong.

In case you have not read the account of the loss of the Victoria Ironclad,² I send you 2 half papers which will give you all that is known. The Admiral must have been half crazy from illness as he appears to have been the sole cause of the awful accident.

[4] We have had some fine rain & the garden is flourishing. I have begun David Grieve³, & like it much only to Chapter VI yet. I can see the localities pretty well on the Map.

I enclose you £5 for clothes &c. this quarter.

In haste | Your affectionate Pa | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]