WCP3891

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42, GREAT RUSSEL STREET,

W.C.

30th July 1914.

TELEGRAMS, “RACEGRAM, WESTCENT, LONDON.”

TELEPHONE REGENT 4527.

Private correspondence

Please mark reply Private

H. N. Ridley¹ Esq.,

7, Cumberland Road,

Kew Gardens. Surrey.

Dear Sir,

I have pleasure in returning you herewith the 9 letters and 3 postcards from Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace which you were kind enough to lend me with very many thanks.²

I must apologise for having kept them so long; but owing to the number of letters received and a break-down in my own health, the copying and returning of letters has been unavoidably delayed.

With renewed thanks, | Yours faithfully, | James Marchant³ [signature]