WCP414

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Hotel du Lauvage

Saturday Evening

My dear Annie¹

We arrived here last even<ing> after a glorious walk down the valley from the Grimsel Hospice — the grandest valley in Switzerland — and with a slight adventure which I will tell you when I come home. I send now a box of plants I collected on the way down, & today during a walk to the Reichenbach Falls after going through the gorge of the Aar, which is really wonderful & well worth the franc to see it. I send a fine form of the beech fern and some of the little Asplenium septentrionale², the only fern not common British which we saw.

We shall stay here over tomorrow, & then finish our co, & then I mean to take your Pa³ to Wengen & try & get into the Hotel Blumlisalp where Violet⁴ was, for a week, as I am [2] quite tired of the eternal packing up every night or every other night. Besides, we have twice nearly been without our baggage, & in danger of having no clothes to change or any other comforts.

Your Pa has mossed to his hearts content and has already got a huge bundle of plants about the size of a small fellow which he increases daily.

We have got four of the newspapers but have had to pay 1s extra on each because they are over 203. If you send any more please take off the advertisement page to make them under 203, and send them directed to me at the Post Office Wengen, Switzerland.

In haste, after a tiring day.

Your ever affectionate | Alfred R Wallace [signature]