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9, St. Mark's Crescent N.W.
Saturday2
Dear Mrs. Huxley,
Many thanks in your kindness in sending me the ticket, which I exceedingly regret I was not able to use, as I had accepted an engagement for last evening a week ago, before I heard of the lecture, & have been debating with myself ever since if I could decently break it off. I was sorely tempted, but the dictates of a high morality prevailed. But alas! Virtue was not its own reward. I had a most stupid evening. Thirty miscellaneous [2] men in black, crowded into a room with two microscopes & four chairs, — hot and dreary, and at 11'oclock [sic] a standing up supper! I had just been reading Lubbock's3 Customs of modern Savages,4 but thought we need not go far to see barbarous & savage customs under the focus of civilization.
Another time I will not make myself such a martyr to polite society.
With kind love to all your little ones.
Believe me | Dear Mrs. Huxley | Yours very faithfully | Alfred R Wallace [signature]
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