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Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

July 5. 1889.

My Dear Professor Wallace:

Let me thank you very heartily for your new book, "Dar- winism" which I only received from your publishers, doubtless through your request. I have as yet had time only to glance at it, and hope soon to be able to study it carefully. I need not say how much pleasure and profit I expect to receive from it as from those standard & enduring works which have already made your name famous. May you long be spared in health & happiness, for further usefulness both on the Spiritual and Material planes of life!

[2] Thanks for your kind invitation which I shall certainly wish to accept when I visit England again. Your name is often on the lips of mutual friends whom you met— or made— while you were here. Mrs. Coues joins me in kindest regards to you & yours.

Very sincerely | your friend | Elliott Coues [signature]