WCP290

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Parkstone, Dorset

May 4^th. 1897

My dear Violet¹

You have much improved in your composition & your article with a little further expansion will do very well. I have added in pencil a few words here & there to round off the sentences & make them read better. Also some notes for additions, chiefly on p.7 and the end. When you have made all these alterations & additions — so as to read well — copy it all out fair and send to me [2] and I will try & get it in the "Contemporary Review"²! If that fails, we will try "Good Words"³ or "Macmillans"⁴, but I rather think the Edition of the "Contemporary" will have it.

I think — "Children in the Parks" will be as good a title as any. Or perhaps — "Playgrounds for Poor Children" — or — "Poor Children in the Parks". I send you also Olive Schnewien art.[icle] From the lost "Fortnightly" [3] which was put away because it had my "Gorge of the Aar" article in it.

This month’s "Fortnightly" has not come yet & I have a horrid suspicion that they may not be going to send it me anymore!

I have just finished a good chapter on "Phrenology" for my book.

In haste | Your affect[iona]^te Pa | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]