WCP3144

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19, Carleton Road

Tufnell Park N

24 May/92

Dear Sir,

Your favour¹ returning the letters, is duly to hand.

It must have interested you keenly to have read letters of your own so far back, & if it turns out that you have any of Mr. Bates's,² I shall be very glad to see them.

Your letters, with others from Mr. Darwin³ & contemporaries, form part of Mr. Bates's Estate, of which one of his sons⁴ & [2] myself are Trustees.

I will confer with him as to letting you have them; the difficulty as to giving up anything is enhanced by the need of consulting the two sons⁵ in New Zealand, for who we are Trustees until M^rs. Bates's⁶ death, when everything is divided.

Personally, I am quite willing that you should have them. But anyway, they can be lent again for you to copy. I had hoped to have had the pleasure of meeting you at the Geographical Society's [3] dinner last evening, but learned from Mr. Keltie⁷ that you could not remain to attend that.

Yours faithfully | Edward Clodd⁸ [signature]

Alfred R. Wallace, Esq.