The Daily News Office
London1
April 8 1903
My dear Sir,
I cannot say how pleased I was with your kind commendation of my humble little effort to defend your theory from one of the attacks upon it. There seemed to me a singular lack of imagination in the theory advanced by Mr Maunder2 & Prof. Turner3 of a curtain of dark stars. Professor Turner's further suggestion of possible dark nebulae seems equally untenable, for if the dark rifts were caused [2]4 by intervening bodies the stars left exposed would not bear a definite structural relation to them.
I am afraid I am not qualified to give an astronomical imprimatur to your forthcoming work. I am a reviewer here, have no personal knowledge of astronomers, & only such acquaintance from with the science as arises from a great natural interest in it. Otherwise I should have been delighted to read your proofs as a "labour of love".
I am, Sir, | Yours faithfully | W. B. Hodgson [signature]
Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace
Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP2819.2709)]
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