WCP2411

[1]

Smithsonian Institution,

Washington D. C.

July 5. 1889.

My Dear Professor Wallace:

Let me thank you very heartily for your new book, "Darwinism"¹ 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 met² — or made— while you were here. Mrs. Coues³ joins me in kindest regards to you & yours.

Very sincerely | your friend | Elliott Coues⁴ [signature]