WCP2635

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14 Aug[us]^t. [18]82

Dear Sir

I have to thank you for your little Book on one of the most pressing subjects of the day & full of interest to me. I have not yet had leisure enough to study it so as to give an opinion upon your idea, but I shall be prepared to talk it out with you if you find yourself [2] able to visit us during the month of September or later, as [2 words illeg.] & I hope you may do. Though we have no fossils for your boy here there is a very beautiful[?] field for research in some cliffs on the sea shore near Christchurch[.]

Believe me | Faithfully | [first name illeg.] Temple [signature]¹

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