WCP3884

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Parkstone,

Dorset.

July 21st. 1898

Dear Mr. Ridley

Many thanks for the box of Coelogyne cumingii which arrived in very good order and I think will grow. I find it very difficult to preserve the small species like Bulbophyllum and Cirrhopetalum, because I cannot keep a sufficiently uniform temp.[erature] in my small house which is rather exposed to the wind. I must therefore keep to the rather large species.

With best wishes | Believe me | Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

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