Oegstgeest, Holland
Wednesday June 24/[19]13
My dear Mr. Wallace,
Thank you from my heart for your invitation — my chief purpose in coming to England was to see you: the true discoverer, after God, of evolution. All the more so because I have tried to put into poetry what you have scientifically demonstrated; you and your great co-adjutors[?] — It was my hope to see you Saturday, but the Vice President of my University (Columbia) met me in the Hague, even after I had changed Dutch money into English, and owing to his desire to have me show him Holland, it will be impossible to leave until July 5th or so — On my arrival in London I shall drop you a line with the hope that you can appoint another day and another hour. I am greatly disappointed tat I had to give up this trip, to which I had looked forward with so much expectation.
Yours Very truly | Leonard Van Noppen1[signature]
[2]2 Alfred Russell[sic] Wallace Esq
Old Orchard
Broadstone
Wimborne, Dorset,
England
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