WCP537

[1]¹

Clune House

Pontypool

[Wales]

Jan[uar]y 9^th. 1913

Dr. Alfred Russell [sic] Wallace,

Dear Sir.

To the many congratulations and tributes you will have received on your 90^th birthday, permit one unknown to you to add just one more. Your books have been an inspiration to me for years Your 'Problem of Life'² I reviewed publicly in my pulpit, for I am not considered always orthodox in the choice of subjects, nevertheless the hundreds of young men that listen and appreciate would gladden your heart. We owe you much — and are ready to owe you more. May you be long spared in the renewal of your youth though years become many.

It may be that a word from Monmouthshire and not far from Usk-Side will not be altogether a voice from a wilderness for I believe you remember Usk. Well, the Tennysonian wish of 'no moaning of the bar'³seems incongruous in your older days, not 'sea' but 'sky' seems better — so may the westering sky be golden.

Yours faithfully, | Daniel Hughes [signature]