WCP3582

[1]

Broadstone, Dorset.

May 31st. 1903

J. S. Keltie Esq.¹

Dear Sir

Research Department

I bet to thank the Council for the honour they have done me in asking me to join the Research Committee. I would gladly accept the honour could I take any part in their work. But I never come to London now, and my correspondence continually increases almost beyond my power to cope with it. I also have literary work on hand, & more that I wish to be able to do, and I therefore feel obliged to decline [2] any thing that would increase, in however slight a degree, my correspondence or my responsibilities.

I shall therefore feel obliged if the Council will not keep my name on the Committee.

Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]