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Parkstone, Dorset.

Oct.[obe]^r 4th. 1895

My dear Violet¹

I have paid your dressmaker's bill — £1.0.3- & send you £4 balance. I also have your dentist's bill, £1.11.6, which I will pay. It seems very moderate. I am of course overhead & heels in orchid houses — now almost finished. I have no County Geography of Lancashire, you can get them by sending [2] 2^d & 1/2^d for postage, to William Collins & Sons, Bridewell Place, New Bridge Street, London. Miss Lachlan has not sent back the books yet.

I have only one piece of news for you & that is very sad. Poor Crumpet² is dead! She came in one day last week with a most dreadful wound in the lower part of her stomach four or five inches long. I think she must have rushed away from some dog or [3] cat & got through a hole with a nail sticking up & so tore herself. However after a day or two we saw it was hopeless, and had to put her out of her misery.

The two kittens are all right as they can just feed themselves. The old cat is all right.

My language article³ is out at last! The Daily Chronicle had a long leading article on it. As soon as I [4] get my separate copies I will send you some.

Give my kind regards to Eleanor but how she is going to reform I cannot guess — not becoming a primrose dame I hope!

You did not send me Dora's address. Ma's⁴ eye will not get well, though much better.

Your affectionate Pa | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Will⁵ is still at Govan.