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Fern Dell, Dorking

March 2. 1884

My dear Sir

Will you kindly excuse my presumption if I ask you to read — and give me an opinion on the enclosed Memorandum?. I feel that to ask it of a man of such great scientific knowledge & attainments — approaches if it does not reach temerity. The more especially when I reflect [2] that the questions propounded though to me, they seem to be novel and important — may to you seem old, familiar and puerile. But they have long puzzled me — and if in my own mind I could answer them satisfactorily in the affirmative — would seem to account for many mysteries in the constitution of the heavenly bodies & of the universe.

Have you seen a Book just published the Creeds [3] of the Day¹ — by Henry Coke (Trübner & Co) in which your name is several times mentioned, & the opinions quoted — always with deference & honor?

Believe me | Yrs vy truly | Chas Mackay² [signature]

A. R. Wallace Esq