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Mar[ch]. 4/[18]86

Prof[essor]. T.H. Huxley

To Prof[essor]. H. N. Martin,

Re[?] A. R. Wallace

"I have never heard Wallace address a large audience, therefore you must take what I am about to say for just so much as it may be worth.

The substance of what he has to say is sure to be worth listening to, even if it should be about spirit rapping and writing — (though I presume that he will keep clear of that topic) — but I have grave doubts whether his style of speaking is such as to lay hold of a large general audience.

But I repeat my opinion is only speculation": is only speculation x x x x x x x [2] "I hate listening to lectures & have often said I would not hear my own if I could help it. Thus I have heard very few within the last ten or fifteen lectures years. As soon as a man begins to speak I have an irresistible temptation to think of something [1 word illeg.] to hi his study subject. — and then lose the thread of his discourse."