WCP3163

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ANRU,

WARMINSTER ROAD,

SOUTH NORWOOD PARK,

SURREY.

November 9. 1897.

Dear Alfred Russell [sic] Wallace,

I dont [sic] know whether you see the "Bookman", but it is giving a series of Sketches based on interviews with authors. The other day it was Mrs. Humphrey Ward.¹ Then I was invited to sit, and in the course of conversation I happened to mention your name, and to say I knew you personally, when Mr. Dawson,² the Interviewer, said how glad he would be if you would favour him with a chat. I wish you could, not only for the interest we should all take in reading a Sketch of you and your work, but because Mr. Dawson is a young Journalist on the climb and trying to lay hold where he can in his upward struggle, and because, as he expressed it, it would be "a feather in his cap" if Alfred Russell Wallace would be kind enough to see him.^3,4 I dont know where you are living now, but if at one of the ends of t the earth he would seek you out.

I am, with all good wishes, and with the hope that you are still working happily and finding life worth living, and with the kindest remembrances to Mrs. Wallace,⁵

yours faithfully, | Gerald Massee⁶ [signature]