WCP3334

[1]

Oegstgeest, Holland

Wednesday June 24/13

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 5^th 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 that 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]

Alfred Russell [sic] Wallace Esq

Old Orchard

Broadstone

Wimborne, Dorset,

England