WCP2378

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71 Seymour Street

Hyde Park

W

23^d Sep^r - 1878

Dear Mr. Wallace,

It is with a somewhat selfish pleasure that I hear you are a candidate for the post about to be created by the Conservators of Epping Forest.

For as a Londoner, I am greatly interested in the preservation & improvement of that interesting & beautiful district & I know how in your hands, it would be preserved and improved.

[2] Of course I know well enough your enthusiastic love of natural beauty — especially of plants — from your conversation & writings but in addition I know by observation what you what you can actually do in the way of planting and improvement, the judiciousness of your selections your th untiring attention and care.

[3] Most heartily then do I wish you success for I do not believe there is another man in England so well qualified for the post.

Believe me | your’s [sic] faithfully | S^t George Mivart.¹ [signature]

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