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Broadstone, Wimborne.
June 23rd. 1908
Dear Lord Avebury2
Thank you very much for your kind invitation. I regret that I have for years been obliged to renounce such delights as breakfasts with my friends. I have been obliged adopt the plan of "no breakfast" — and "no dinner" either — only eating once in the middle of the day, which I find the only means of keeping off [2] attacks of asthma, & keeping me in such health that I can still do a little work.
I shall probably come up to the "celebration"3 on the 1st for the day only, as there are convenient trains, & that will involve less fatigue & risk than a more prolonged stay away from my household gods.
Allow me to wish [3] every success to your Bill for preserving beautiful birds from destruction. To stop the import is the only way — short of the still more drastic method of heavily fining every one who wears feathers in public, with imprisonment for a second offence! But we are not yet ripe for that.
Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]
Rt. Hon. Lord Avebury
Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3364.3332)]
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Broadstone, Wimborne,
June 23rd, 1908.
Dear Lord Avebury—Thank you very much for your kind invitation. I regret that I have for years been obliged to renounce such delights as breakfasts with my friends. I have been obliged to adopt the plan of 'no breakfast,' and 'no dinner' either—only eating once, in the middle of the day, which I find the only means of keeping off attacks of asthma, and keeping me in such health that I can still do a little work.
I shall probably come up to the "celebration" on the 1st, for the day only, as there are convenient trains, and that will involve less fatigue and risk than a more prolonged stay away from my household gods.
Allow me to wish every success to your Bill for preserving beautiful birds from destruction.
To stop the import is the only way—short of the still more drastic method of heavily fining every one who wears feathers in public, with imprisonment for a second offence. But we are not yet ripe for that.—Yours very truly,
Alfred R. Wallace.
Status: Draft transcription [Published letter (WCP3364.5781)]
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TO LORD AVEBURY
Broadstone, Wimborne.1 June 23, 1908.
Dear Lord Avebury, —... Allow me to wish every success to your Bill2 for preserving beautiful birds from destruction. To stop the import is the only way — short of the still more drastic method of heavily fining everyone who wears feathers in public, with imprisonment for a second offence. But we are not yet ripe for that. — Yours very truly, | ALFRED R. WALLACE.
Status: Draft transcription [Published letter (WCP3364.6581)]
For more information about the transcriptions and metadata, see https://wallaceletters.myspecies.info/content/epsilon
Please cite as “WCP3364,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on