WCP5230

[1]

Broadstone, Dorset.

Feb.[ruar]^y 19th. 1904

W. Rothenstein Esq.¹

Dear Sir

Thanks for proof of portrait. The face is no doubt like, but it seems to me rather too delicate in feature, too small in mouth, too young-looking! and with that very bored expression which I can't help taking on when sitting up to order & being looked at.

What do you think yourself? From not ^very well, — am now better, & hope when the [2] Spring comes in earnest — if it even does come — to get more out-door air in the garden and a rather more robust look in the face.

So if you are not quite satisfied with this one come again about April or May if convenient.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]