WCP4500

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Godalming,

Oct. 5. 1887.

My dear Meldola¹

The enclosed ticket has been sent me by Hampden.² You will see that the Dialectical Soc. are allowing him to expose his ignorance & absurdities. There will no doubt be some fun & he says he is going to abuse me. Will you go & let me know what happens – If opposed he will abuse you all, as knaves [2] impostors, & fools.

Thanks for your kind offer of a bed. I will accept it when needed. I am busy with arrears of correspondence ^{& reading}, & with great alterations in house & garden, and have also just now to prepare a new Edition of my "Australasia"³ for Stanford involving a good deal of work. My eyes are still weak & subject to inflammation otherwise I enjoyed excellent [3] health in America⁴ & had generally a "good time" of it.

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

Prof. R. Meldola.