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Helm,

Windemere.

July 1 1913

My dear D^r Wallace

I trust you are keeping as strong & well as when I saw last in 1911. I have just got home again from Para after 15 months & propose to return for another year or so in October, taking out with me a decent 2 manual man for my new church on the old British Cemetery.

This is now complete & has been in use since Dec^[embe]r, & the new British Cardinal, an admirable man, is [2] keeping the services going for me in my absence. Except for general ailments & a little malaria the place is now perfectly healthy, & we have not seen anything more of the yellow fever since May 1911. This is still more or less present in Manáos & Liará, the former of which I went to with my Bishop last January for a week.

I have enjoyed perfect health all the while & had a good time in every way. The community is not a large one, &, save for a limited number, not over keen on supporting any religious institution. However I keep in touch with them all, and we all remain the best of friends.

[3] I wish you could come out again & see how far your old haunts have changed. You are often talked of by our young man[?] out there, & my valued copy of your book on Para & the Amazon is in constant demand. Is it not going to be reprinted, as I sh[oul]^d like to take back half a dozen copies? I know of nothing decent which covers the same ground since the days of Wallace & Bates.

I should much like to see you again while in England, if that were possible, & tell you in some detail of my varied interests in the place. Entomologically, & should add botanically, I have had a thoroughly interesting & profitable time, & have been [word illeg.] once [4] again, not only to send home many cases of set[?] insects, some eight of which I have just brought with me but alas to make a considerable number of new illustrations of strange larvae & work out their life histories. Dr Hüter², the director of the Museum of [word illeg] has been an excellent friend in supplying all the information necessary on the botanical side. The study of the Papillon[?], of which I took 18 species in Para, has been one of my specialities, & the extraordinarily close intimacy of some 8 out of 11 of the Aristolochia[?] group has furnished ^me with abundant material for a discourse upon the relation of species. I wrote up some 60 pages of this on the voyage home for the Z.S³ or Tring Noritates Zoological, but I feel the need of a master mind & should welcome your criticism if I could get it without bothering you.

With kindest remembrances | Regards to your wife & family | I am sincerely yours | A. Miles Moss[signature]⁴