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Frith Hill, Godalming.

Dec^r. 14th. 1888

My dear Miss North¹

My wife² has been suffering from an extraordinary brain-disease the last month or more, & at the commencement of it she wrote you some letters, very wild I fear, but she was not responsible for her thoughts or actions. Her illness has now come to a crisis, but I hope it has turned & that she will now get better. Today she [2] insisted on writing to you, & I thought it proper in her weak and excited state to open it. I see she apologises for her former letters which I suppose she thinks worse than they were, so I send it, but please lay no stress on it as she is really still in a state of delirium & mental derangement.

I sincerely hope that [3] your own health is now re established or improved, and, with best wishes,

I remain | yours very sincerely | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]