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Pen-y-bryn, St. Peter’s Road, Croydon

Nov[embe]^r 13^th. 1880

Dear Sir Joseph¹

Many thanks for your note & kind remarks about my book. Any notes you can forward me with will be most acceptable.

I am surprised at what you say about the Bahamas. I took my statement from Grisebach’s² work (French translation) who distinctly states, that the Flora of the Bahamas is Tropical & West Indian & quite different from that of Florida.

I thought this such a good case & such good authority that I took it for an illustration. I have just [2] come from Birmingham where I met Mr. Matthews who gave me a copy of his Essay on the Flora of Algeria³. Your appendix to the "Travels in Morocco" I should be very glad to have a copy of as I read it with the greatest instruction & thought it the most interesting fact of that very interesting & delightful book.

Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]