WCP3144

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19, Carleton Road

Tufnell Park N

24 Mar[ch]/[18]92

Dear Sir,

Your favour 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's¹, I shall be very glad to see them.

Your letters, with others from Mr. Darwin & contemporaries, form part of Mr. Bates's Estate, of which one of his sons & [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 sons in New Zealand, for who we are Trustees until Mrs. Bates's 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. Keltie² that you could not [?] attend that.

Yours faithfully | Edward Clodd³ [signature]

Alfred R. Wallace, Esq.