WCP414

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Hotel du Lauvage

Saturday Evening [13 July 1895]¹

My dear Annie²

We arrived here last evening 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 septentrionale,³ the only fern not common British which we saw.

We shall stay here over tomorrow, & then finish our coupons, & then I mean to take your Pa⁴ to Wengen & try & get into the Hotel Blumlisalp where Violet⁵ 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 1d extra on each because they are over 2 oz. If you send any more please take off the advertisement page to make them under 2 oz. 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]