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WCP3117

Letter (WCP3117.3085)

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90, Ladbroke Grove. W.

29th December/85

A. R. Wallace Esq. L. L. D.

Frith Hill

Godalming

Dear Sir

Thanks for your note1 of yesterday with enclosures.

I will take an early opportunity of perusing your book "Bad Times",2 but as I leave for India tomorrow I am afraid it will be a few months or so before I can do so.

Thanking you for your kind remarks respecting the small services I have been enabled to [2] render to the suffering natives of India & Egypt, & reciprocating your good wishes[.]

I remain | Yours faithfully | J. Seymour Keay3 [signature]

1
The note has not been found.
2
allace, A. R. 1885. Bad times: an essay on the present depression of trade, tracing it to its sources in enormous foreign loans, excessive war expenditure, the increase of speculation and of millionaires, and the depopulation of the rural districts; with suggested remedies. London & New York: Macmillan & Co.
3
Keay, John Seymour (1839-1909). Scottish businessman in India. Later a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom.

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Transcribed by Tannock, Wendy [2015-07-13] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-07-13] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP3117,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3117