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Frith Hill, Godalming

Oct.[obe]^r 10th. 1887

My dear Newton^1,2

Thanks your very excellent & interesting address which I had read in "Nature"; and I must thank you ^also for the kind way in which you have mentioned my name in connection with Mr. Darwin, an honour which I feel more & more I am quite unworthy of. I had a most interesting & not unprofitable tour in America, saw a great deal of the country & peoples, and have gained much fresh [2] information & I hope some fresh ideas both scientific & political. By the scientific men I was everywhere received with the greatest kindness & cordiality,— and with a respect & honour which was really oppressive to me, as I always feel dreadfully ignorant in the presence of men who are working all their lives while I am merely amusing myself!

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