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[1]

Broadstone, Wimborne

Feb^y. 13th. 1905

Dear Mr. Bruce Glasier¹

I am sorry I cannot oblige you as you ask, but I am now in the middle of a large work, & have so many interruptions & correspondence that if I do all the odd jobs I am asked to do (& should wish to do), I shall never get finished besides perhaps spoiling both.

In the mean time I think you can get what you want in my last book — to some extent. This for p. 258 to end of chapter of "Man's Place &c."². There is also a passage of p. 204 — on the charms [2] of Nature — also from p. 321 to 323 — there are passages more to the point.

But why did you not include Oliver Lodge³ [illeg.] among scientific men of the first rank who are non-materialists and avowed Socialists? And surely Ruskin⁴ was a Socialist. — and even Shelley⁵ & Byron⁶ were so at heart. However they were not scientific.

Wishing you all success.

Yours very sincerely | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

[3] Have you asked O. Lodge to write for you? He seems to enjoy that kind of thing. A.R.W.