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Hotel Steinbock
Lauterbrunnen
June 30th
My dear Dr Russell[sic] Wallace,
Your letter has been sent to me from London & I have written to my publishers to tell them to make arrangements about the figures you wish to borrow — I am very glad that some of my figures should be of use to you — and I expect that your book will be a very beautiful & interesting one.
I am here for a couple of weeks or so with [2] my sister & niece. We arrived on Monday and find it very beautiful. I had never been here so early in the year before — although I know the whole region very well. The flowers are perfectly wonderful in their variety and abundance. It is, I am glad to say, too early for the crowd of visitors and the weather is splendid. Yesterday we were up 10,500 feet on the [1 word illeg.] by electric train — and were able [3] to spend hours on the high mountain meadows & rocks — collecting flowers. The birds too are still singing — but there are very few insects — The Swiss people always seem to me — happy and active as English people ought to be and would be if we had a land system similar to that of the Swiss — and were free of the burden of the land lords.
Sincerely yours | E Ray Lankester [signature]
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