WCP4547

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Parkstone, Dorset.

March 30^th. 1901

My dear Meldola

I shall be glad to lend you my slides & will send them you in a day or two. Some are good, others poor, but they most of them come out fairly well if the lantern is good. Some may have faded but I hope not.

Still you can choose enough to serve for one lecture.

I am glad to hear that Mrs. Meldola is quite well [2] from the accident.

I am very well & have been very busy, for me, this winter rewriting most of my Wonderful Century for a new illustrated edition.

I have not yet found a suitable place ^{to move to} but now I have found about 5-6 friends who will join to buy an estate & divide up into a dozen or twenty lots — if we can find a place to suit us. I shall give some time this summer to it.

We want a place within [3] 30 miles of London, & that makes it more difficult.

I forget whether I told you that Will is at work for an American firm in London, — at his old place Newcastle-on-Tyne, at Electrical power work, & is getting on well, & enjoys his work. He came home for 4 days at ‘Xmas, but I don’t expect we shall see him again till next ‘Xmas.

Yours very truly| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]