WCP4817

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Jan[uar]y 17th,1913

Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne.

Dear Hugo Merlons

Dear Sir

I am sorry that I cannot read or write German but a friend has translated your letter. I thanks you your kind congratulations and compliments[.] Also for the very beautiful volume of your travels through Java to the Moluccas and to the Ké and Aru Islands.

I see that Dobbo is now turned into a quite civilized [2]¹ town; but most of the other places seem not much changed.

Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace — [signature]