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Waldron Edge, Duppas Hill, Croydon

Jan[uar]^y 9^th, 1880

My dear Newton¹

I return Rembrandt’s letter, of which I have taken notes, with thanks. I suppose the papers are in Danish & unintelligible, but even if in French I could not do anything with them unless I had the papers all here. At present I am finishing a book.

By the bye do you know any of the Trustees of the Josiah Mason College of Science at Birmingham. It is to open in Oct[ober] next & they have advertised for Professors in "Nature"². I presume there will be some [2] such posts as Registrar, Librarian, Curator &c. for which I should be fitted, & which I would much like to get, as I am very much wanting of some employment less precarious than writing books &c. which are wretched pay. I had great hopes of getting the Superintendentship of Epping Forest for which I had got considerable interest but I failed.

Believe me | Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Prof[essor] Newton