WCP4211

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

Nov[embe]^r 24^th. 1890

Dear Mr. Cockerell,

Thanks for your letter and notes. You are really taking too much trouble, though what you are sending me will be very useful. But please understand that I do not intend to introduce any new matter in the book, except so far as is absolutely necessary to correct or illustrate what is already discussed. There would be no end to it if I expanded it so as to introduce all the new matter that would illustrate the subject. But it quite big enough as it is, & I only want to correct errors & to bring information & facts up to date [2] especially as it is to be a cheaper edition to correspond with my "Darwinism".

I am sorry to see you have not got the post at Plymouth, but in a year or two you may have another chance, or of something better.

Please excuse me if I do not acknowledge each instalment of your notes,— except perhaps by a Postcard saying "Notes Received."

Yours very faithfully│ Alfred R Wallace — [signature]

[3] P.S. I have written to some Botanical friends about the peculiar forms of the British Flora, so you need not trouble yourself about that unless you should happen to come across any paper on the question.

A.R.W. [signature]

I have not begun reading the sheets for correction yet, as when I do so I want to go on straight through.

A.R.W. [signature]